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21. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?
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A. Psycho linguistics

B. Sociolinguistics

C. None of these

D. >Comparative linguistics

22. How many classes of morphemes can be identified in a language ?
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A. Four

B. Two

C. Only one

D. Three

23. 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

24. Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1976

B. 1977

C. 1988

D. 1975

25. 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

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

B. Trill

C. fricatives

D. Affricates

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

B. Possessive morpheme

C. Past morpheme

D. An adjective forming morpheme

28. Morpheme alternants are called________?
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A. Allophones

B. None of the above

C. Allomorphs

D. Minimal pairs

29. 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

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

B. Langue

C. Parole

D. Paradigmatic

31. 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

32. 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

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

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. Steven Pinker

D. Noam Chomsky

34. Which among the following pairs are Velar plosives ?
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A. /p/ & /b/

B. /t/ &/d/

C. /m/ & /v/

D. /k/ & /g/

35. 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

36. 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

37. ______________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

38. Words such as smog and motel are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Backformation

C. Derivation

D. Portmanteau

39. 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

40. 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

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