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language and linguistics Mcqs

61. The term ______________is used to designate words which are spelt differently but pronounced alike and which are different in meaning ?
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A. Homophones

B. Homographs

C. Homonyms

D. Allophones

62. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
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A. Both b and c

B. Diachrony/Synchrony

C. Acceptable/Unacceptable

D. N. O. T

63. According to the part of the tongue that is raised, vowels can be classified into__________?
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A. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

B. High vowels & low vowels

C. Front vowels & back vowels

D. Tense vowels &lax vowels

64. There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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A. 21

B. 22

C. 19

D. 20

65. The classification of vowels into half__high vowels and half__low vowels is based on ________________?
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A. All the abovE.

B. The height to which the tongue is raised

C. The position of the lips

D. The part of the tongue that is raised

66. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?
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A. 1951

B. 1950

C. 1953

D. 1952

67. A person who can use more than two languages_______________?
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A. Multilingual

B. Bilingual

C. Poly__langual

D. Poly__lingual

68. ________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?
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A. Syllable

B. Pitch.

C. Intonation

D. Stress

69. Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Langue and Parole ?
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A. Charles Sanders Pierce

B. Edward Sapir

C. Ferdinand de Saussure

D. Noam Chomsky

70. The /d/ in middle is an instance of __________________?
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A. Nasal plosion

B. Lateral plosion

C. Incomplete plosion.

D. Alveolar plosion

71. The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?
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A. Sibilants

B. Trills.

C. Semi__vowels

D. Laterals

72. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. None of these

C. Sassure

D. Enoch Powel

73. A collection of similar Idiolect make up ______________?
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A. Dialect

B. Slang

C. Idiolects

D. Register

74. The final /n/ in the words sudden and mutton are __________________?
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A. Suffixes

B. Syllabic consonants

C. None of the above

D. Sibilants

75. ______________is the scientific study of language ?
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A. linguistics

B. Phonology

C. Philology

D. Phonetics

76. _____________________is a processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix?
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A. Backformation.

B. Derivation

C. Compounding

D. Portmanteau

77. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with
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A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

78. Words composed of two or more elements that are identical or slightly different are called____________?
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A. Conversion

B. Compounding

C. Re__duplicates

D. Acronym

79. The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
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A. Secondary phonemes

B. All the above.

C. Supra__segmental phonemes

D. Prosodic features

80. In the pronunciation of the word ink the alveolar /n/ becoming a velar sound is an instance of ____________?
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A. Progressive

B. None of the above

C. Reciprocal

D. Regressive

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