english literature MCQs – Page 339

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

6761. The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
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A. Chomskys Syntactic Structures

B. Chomskys Aspects of the theory of Syntax

C. Leonard Bloomfields Language

D. Both a & b
6762. Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1976

B. 1977

C. 1988

D. 1975
6763. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
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A. 9-Dec-28

B. December 7, 1928

C. 8-Dec-28

D. 10-Dec-28

6764. /f/ and /v/ are called ?
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A. Plosives

B. Trill

C. fricatives

D. Affricates

6765. The s in johns is __________?
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A. Plural morpheme

B. Possessive morpheme

C. Past morpheme

D. An adjective forming morpheme

6766. Morpheme alternants are called________?
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A. Allophones

B. None of the above

C. Allomorphs

D. Minimal pairs

6767. The word bank in on the banks on the river and banks are financial institutions is called a____________?
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A. Allophones

B. Homographs

C. Homophones

D. Homonyms

6768. The system of communication within a community.
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A. N. O. T

B. Langue

C. Parole

D. Paradigmatic

6769. The two sounds influencing each other and combine to produce a third sound is an instance of ________________assimilation?
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A. reciprocal

B. regressive

C. None of the above

D. Regressive

E. Progressive

6770. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?
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A. Parole

B. Paradigmatic

C. Productivity

D. Langue

6771. The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
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A. Enoch Powell

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. Steven Pinker

D. Noam Chomsky
6772. Which among the following pairs are Velar plosives ?
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A. /p/ & /b/

B. /t/ &/d/

C. /m/ & /v/

D. /k/ & /g/
6773. The classification of vowels into front vowels and back vowels is based on ________________ ?
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A. All the abovE.

B. The height to which the tongue is raised

C. The part of the tongue that is raised

D. The position of the lips

6774. On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into______________?
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A. High vowels & low vowels

B. Front vowels & back vowels

C. Tense vowels &lax vowels

D. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

6775. ______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?
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A. Clipping

B. Portmanteau

C. Onomatopoeia

D. Met analysis
6776. Words such as smog and motel are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Backformation

C. Derivation

D. Portmanteau
6777. Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics_______________?
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A. To propound stories of the origin of language

B. To establish a theory of language

C. To describe a language and all languages

D. To study the nature of language

6778. The classification of vowels into front vowels, back vowels and center vowels is based on ________________?
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A. All the abovE.

B. The height to which the tongue is raised

C. The part of the tongue that is raised

D. The position of the lips

6779. There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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A. 23

B. 24

C. 22

D. 25

6780. Words such as phone and photo are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Portmanteau

C. Derivation

D. Clipping.