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121. The consonant /s/ is called ________ ?
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A. Nasal

B. Semi__vowel

C. Sibilant

D. Lateral

122. The study of meaning is called________?
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A. Morphology

B. Syntax

C. Semantics

D. Phonology

123. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?
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A. Portmanteau

B. Clipping

C. Metanalysis

D. Onomatopoeia

124. Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
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A. Gerund

B. None of the above

C. Concord

D. Phrase structure

125. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speakers linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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A. Leon Battista Alberti

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Enoch Powell

126. The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?
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A. Morpheme variants

B. Allophones

C. Allomorphs

D. Minimal pairs

127. According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into __________?
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A. Front vowels & back vowels

B. High vowels & low vowels

C. Round vowels & unrounded vowels

D. Tense vowels &lax vowels

128. The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1960

B. 1958

C. 1957

D. 1959

129. The classification of vowels into high vowels and low vowels is based on ____________?
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A. The height to which the tongue is raised

B. The part of the tongue that is raised

C. All the abovE.

D. The position of the lips

130. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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A. Albert Chomsky

B. Noah Webster

C. Ferdenand de Sassure

D. Noam Chomsky

131. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.
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A. N. O. T

B. Synergy

C. Performance

D. Syntagmatic

132. The study of signs is termed as_________?
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A. Semantics

B. Semiotics

C. Parole

D. Paradigmatic

133. Father of modern linguistics is ________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. None of these

D. Both A and B

134. Words such as edit and house__keep are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding

B. Portmanteau

C. Derivation

D. Backformation

135. Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
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A. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language

B. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language

C. All the above.

D. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences

136. Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?
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A. None of the abovE.

B. Complementary distribution

C. Contrastive distribution

D. Non__contrastive distribution

137. ____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?
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A. Stress

B. Intonation

C. JuncturE.

D. Pitch

138. The ing in sleeping is an example of ____________?
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A. None of these

B. Bound morpheme

C. A free morpheme

D. Free variation

139. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word sky does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?
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A. Complementary distribution

B. Non__complementary distribution

C. Contrastive distribution

D. None of the above

140. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
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A. N. O. T

B. Paradigmatic

C. Synchrony

D. Diachrony

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