Top 150+ Solved Language and Linguistics MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Words which represent the sounds of their referents are called-----
a. portmanteau
b. onomatopoeia
c. clipping
d. metanalysis
Q. The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the deviceof Immediate Constituent analysis are:
a. leonard bloomfield & noam chomsky
b. leonard bloomfield & max-muller
c. max-muller & herman gundert
d. edward sapir & ferdinand de saussure
Q. ----------- is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping togetherwords and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction.
a. transformational generative grammar
b. the phrase structure grammar
c. immediate constituent analysis
d. all the above.
Q. The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ------
a. chomsky’s “syntactic structures”
b. chomsky’s “aspects of the theory of syntax”
c. leonard bloomfield’s “language”
d. both “a’ & “b”
Q. In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means:
a. ‘to produce’
b. ‘to develop’
c. ‘to predict’
d. all the above
Q. Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreementbetween various constituent elements of a language?
a. concord
b. gerund
c. phrase structure
d. none of the above
Q. The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the -----------ofthe same phoneme /l/
a. allophones
b. allomorphs
c. morpheme variants
d. minimal pairs
Q. The /k/ in ‘kill’ and ‘skill’ are --------
a. allophones
b. allomorphs
c. morpheme variants
d. minimal pairs
Q. The initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word ‘little’ are----
a. allophones
b. allomorphs
c. morpheme variants
d. minimal pairs
Q. The word ‘examination’ is a ------word
a. monosyllabic
b. disyllabic
c. try syllabic
d. polysyllabic
Q. A syllabic division is marked with-------
a. a slash
b. an arrow mark
c. a hyphen
d. a vertical bar
Q. Words with more than three syllables are called -----words
a. multisyllabic
b. disyllabic
c. try syllabic
d. polysyllabic
Q. ----- is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols andletters devised by the International Phonetic Association
a. the international phonetic script
b. the international phonetic alphabet
c. the international phonemic script
d. the intelligible phonetic script.
Q. The IPA came into existence in the year----- a. 1889 b. 1998 c. 1989 d. 1888162. The IPA was established by a group of -----
a. european phoneticians
b. greek phoneticians
c. indian philologists
d. american linguists