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181. Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called______________ ?
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A. Displacement

B. Recursiveness

C. TransferencE

D. Duality of structure

182. Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used in W.H. questions asked in a warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness ?
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A. The rising

B. The fall__rise

C. None of the above

D. The falling

183. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in W.Hquestions ?
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A. The rising

B. None of the above

C. The falling

D. The fall__rise

184. The different concrete phonetic variation of the same phoneme are called______________?
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A. Allophones

B. Homonyms

C. Homophones

D. Homographs

185. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called________________ ?
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A. Dialect

B. Slang

C. Register

D. Idiolect

186. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?
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A. Recursiveness

B. Displacement

C. Transference.

D. Duality of structure

187. The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?
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A. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget

B. Max__Muller

C. Otto Jepersen

D. Noire

188. The words denoting the colour red and the past__tense of the verb read ; right and write; and site and sight are examples for________________?
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A. Homophones

B. Allophones

C. Homonyms

D. Homographs

189. /p/, /b/, /m/ and /w/ are____________?
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A. Dental;

B. Glottal

C. Velar

D. Bilabial

190. Which among the following does not constitute the general methodology of science ?
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A. Controlled observation

B. Analysis, generalization and prediction

C. Speculation

D. Hypothesis formulation

191. ______________refers to an individuals equal and native command of two or more languages?
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A. Multilingualism

B. Bilingualism

C. Poly__glotism

D. None of the above

192. How many nasal sounds are there in the Malayalam language ?
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A. Four

B. Five

C. Three

D. Two

193. _______________is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges ?
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A. Socio__linguistics

B. Linguistics of sociology

C. None of these

D. Sociology of linguistics

194. Who defined language as a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements ?
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A. None of the above

B. Noam Chomsky

C. Edward Sapir

D. Ferdinand de Saussure

195. ________________is the totality of the speech habits of an individual?
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A. Register

B. Slang

C. Idiolect

D. Dialect

196. Using a finite set of rules a speaker can produce innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is called______________?
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A. TransferencE

B. Recursiveness

C. Displacement

D. Duality of structure

197. The voiced sound /z/ denoting the plural morpheme in the word dogs is an instance of ________________assimilation?
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A. Progressive

B. reciprocal

C. none of the abovE

D. Regressive

198. The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ?
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A. The Gesture theory

B. The Yo__He__Ho Theory

C. Ding__Dong theory.

D. The Poo__Pooh theory

199. Certain morphemes have more than one meaning and can be understood in more than one way. They are called ______________?
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A. Homographs

B. Homophones

C. Homonyms

D. Allophones

200. The consonant /l/ is called ____________?
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A. Nasal

B. Semi__vowel

C. Sibilant

D. Lateral

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