Top 150+ Solved Language and Linguistics MCQ Questions Answer
Q. A person who can use two languages is called-----
a. biolingual
b. bilingual
c. duo-lingual
d. duo-langual
Q. A person who can use more than two languages:
a. multilingual
b. poly-lingual
c. bilingual
d. poly-langual
Q. -------refers to an individual’s equal and native command of two ormore languages
a. bilingualism
b. poly-glotism
c. multilingualism
d. none of the above
Q. -------------is the study of how the mentally represented grammar oflanguage is employed in the production and comprehension of speech
a. socio-linguistics
b. psycho-linguistics
c. neuron-linguistics
d. physio –linguistics
Q. -------is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of bothlinguistics and sociology converges
a. linguistics of sociology
b. socio-linguistics
c. sociology of linguistics
d. none of these
Q. Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature oflinguistics
a. systematic gathering and analysis of data
b. determination of causal relationship between facts
c. chronological presentation of data
d. verification, validation and generalization.
Q. Which among the following does not constitute the generalmethodology of science
a. controlled observation
b. hypothesis formulation
c. analysis, generalization and prediction
d. speculation
Q. Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics
a. to study the nature of language
b. to establish a theory of language
c. to propound stories of the origin of language
d. to describe a language and all languages
Q. Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics
a. phonology
b. morphology
c. semantics
d. philology
Q. The older term used to designate the study of languages is------
a. philology
b. haplology
c. phonology
d. semiology
Q. The study of elementary speech sounds is called----
a. phonology
b. morphology
c. syntax
d. semantics
Q. The study ordering of speech sounds into the smallest meaningfulgroups is called----
a. phonology
b. morphology
c. syntax
d. semantics
Q. The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered intophrases, clauses, and sentences is called------
a. phonology
b. morphology
c. syntax
d. semantics
Q. -------is the basis of all sounds in English language and in mostlanguages in India.
a. the pulmonic air stream mechanism
b. the glotalic air stream mechanism
c. the velaric air stream mechanism
d. none of the above.