63 

/f/and /v/ are______________?

[A] Dental
[B] Labio__dental
[C] Bilabial
[D] Alveolar
Answer: Labio__dental
64 ______________are sounds articulated in
the glottis ?
[A] Glottal
[B] Velar
[C] Palatal
[D] None of the above
Answer: Glottal
65 __________are articulated by raising the
front of the tongue towards the hard palate ?
[A] Post__alveolar
[B] Palate__alveolar
[C] Palatal
[D] Velar
Answer: Palatal
66 Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue
placed against the upper teeth are
called___________________?
[A] Dental
[B] Labio__dental
[C] Bilabial
[D] Alveolar
Answer: Dental
67 Sounds articulated by two lips are called
____________?
[A] Dental
[B] Bilabial
[C] Labio__dental
[D] Alveolar
Answer: Bilabial
68 ________ is a unit of speech which is at a
level higher than the speech sound or
phoneme ?
[A] Syllable
[B] Stress
[C] Intonation
[D] Pitch
Answer: Syllable
69 ______________are words which differ
only in one phoneme ?
[A] Diphthongs
[B] Triphthongs
[C] Semi__vowels
[D] Minimal pairs
Answer: Minimal pairs
70 ____________is a monosyllabic vowel
combination of a diphthong and a the weak
vowel?
[A] Triaphthong
[B] Triaphone
[C] Triphthong
[D] Triology
Answer: Triphthong
71 The study of meaning is called________?
[A] Phonology
[B] Morphology
[C] Syntax
[D] Semantics
Answer: Semantics
72 ______________is the scientific study of
language ?
[A] Philology
[B] Phonology
[C] Phonetics
[D] linguistics
Answer: linguistics
73 Which among the following is an example
for onomatopoeia ?
[A] Smog
[B] UNESCO
[C] Buzz
[D] edit
Answer: Buzz
74 Words composed of two or more elements
that are identical or slightly different are
called____________?
[A] Compounding
[B] Acronym
[C] Re__duplicates
[D] Conversion
Answer: Re__duplicates
75 Words such as ‘phone’ and ‘photo’ are
instances of ____________?
[A] Compounding
[B] Portmanteau
[C] Derivation
[D] Clipping
Answer: Clipping
76 Words such as ‘black__leg’ and
‘flash__light’ are instances of ____________?
[A] Compounding
[B] Portmanteau
[C] Derivation
[D] Backformation
Answer: Compounding
of the same phoneme. Example:
The aspirated \p\ of ‘pin’ and
the unaspirated \p\ of ‘spin’
are allophones of the phoneme \p\
(Aspirated is one which is pronounced
with forceful expulsion of air. Therefore,
“pin” is pronounced as “phin”)
Q. How many stress types are of the
same phoneme. Example:
The aspirated \p\ of ‘pin’ and
the unaspirated \p\ of ‘spin’
are allophones of the phoneme \p\
(Aspirated is one which is pronounced
with forceful expulsion
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Q What is the function of Broca’s area in
brain?
Ans. Production of language
Q. Where is Broca’s area located in brain?
Ans. To the left, on the front side
Q. The use of unpleasant harsh sounds in
speech or writing is called?
Ans. Cacophony
Q. Give an example of cacophony?
Ans. “I detest war because cause of war is
always trivial.”
(The phrase “because cause” is cacophonic as
“because” is followed by “cause” which has a
similar sound, but different meaning.
Generally, it sounds unpleasant as the same
sound is repeated in two different words)
Q. In linguistics, sounds which begin with
complete obstruction of breath followed by
slow release of air are called?
Ans. Affricates
(obstruction means blockade)
Q. How many affricate sounds does English
have?
Ans. English has two affricate sounds “ch”
and “j” e.g. the initial sounds in ‘chair’ and
‘jam’
Q. What is semantics?
Ans. Semantics is the study of the meanings
of words, phrases and sentences
Q. Who created the terms signifier and
signified?
Ans. Ferdinand De Saussure
Q. What is Signifier?
Ans. Signifier is the sound or pronunciation
of a word
Q. What is Signified?
Ans. Signified is the meaning indicated by the
signifier/pronunciation of a word
Q. When two varieties of a language are
spoken in a society in which one is formal
and another is informal, it is called?
Ans. Diglossia e.g. street language and formal
language
Q. Who first used the term diglossia in
English?
Ans. Linguist Charles Ferguson used it first
in 1959
Q. The concept of LAD
(Language Acquisition Device) was given by?
Ans. Noam Chomsky
Q. What is LAD or Language Acquisition
Device?
Ans. It is the innate biological ability which
enables an infant to acquire and produce
language
Q. What is vocal tract?
Ans. The vocal tract is the cavity found in
humans that is responsible for producing
sounds. It includes the lips, tongue, throat
and even nose
Q. What is the difference between consonants
and vowels?
Ans. Consonants are articulated with full or
partial closure in the vocal tract while vowels
are produced with a free flow of the air
Q. Vowels are also called…….?
Ans. Frictionless continuants
Q. What is Conceptual meaning?
Ans. The basic meaning conveyed by words
e.g. the word needle means “thin, sharp, steel
instrument”
Q. In linguistics, complete closure of the oral
cavity with the air diverted through the nose
makes…..?
Ans. Nasal sounds e.g. m, n, ng
(mouth is called oral cavity)
Q. What is Phoneme?
Ans. The smallest unit of speech
that makes one word
different from another word e.g.
“c” and “b” are different phonemes in
the words “cat” and “bat”
Q……… is the study of the ways in which
phonemes are allowed to combine in a
particular language?
Ans. Phonotactics e.g. we can never have
words like “fsig” or “rnig”
(Phonemes are actually sounds in a language.
English has 44 phonemes OR sounds)
Q. Give two examples of Phonotactics?
Ans. /bl/ is a permissible sequence at the start
of a word (e.g. blast), it cannot occur at the
end. conversely, /nk/ is permitted at the end
of a word (e.g. link), but not permitted at the
start.”
Q. Phonotactics is the branch of…..?
Ans. Phonology
Q. The primitive categories in a grammar e.g.
Noun, Pronoun, Adjective etc. are called?
Ans. Substantive universals.
(Substantive universals are claimed to occur
in all grammars)
Q. The hard part that forms the top of the
mouth, behind the front teeth is called……?
Ans. Hard palate
Q.  What is Collocation?
Ans. Words that frequently occur together
e.g. salt and pepper
Q. What is synonymy?
Ans. It is the study of words with the same or
similar meaning e.g. “conceal” is a synonym
of “hide”
Q. The basic principle of Lexicography is?
Ans. Synonymy
(lexicography is the process of writing,
editing and compiling a dictionary)
Q. The soul of language is?
Ans. Meaning
Q. Give three examples of /i:/ sound?
Ans. Seat, see, need
/i:/ represents long vowel sound of the vowel i
Q. Egressive pulmonic airflow is the normal
mechanism for producing speech sounds
in…….?
Ans. All languages
Q. What are pulmonic egressive sounds?
Ans. These sounds are produced when air
flow is directed outwards from lungs towards
oral cavity e.g. p, n, s
Q. The study of the origins and development
of language is called?
Ans. Glossogenetics
Q. Homophony refers to……..?
Ans. Same pronunciation but different
meanings e.g. too, two, to
Q. Sound that is produced when air is
blocked by the tip of the tongue but allowed
to escape round the sides of the tongue is
called?
Ans. Lateral sound. L is lateral sound.
Actually “lateral” means “belonging to the
side”
Q. The only lateral sound in English is?
Ans. L
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Q. The process by which humans acquire a
language naturally and gradually is called?
Ans. Language Acquisition
Q. A more conscious process of collecting
knowledge of a language is called?
Ans. Language Learning
Q. What is Audio-lingual Method?
Ans. It is a method of foreign language
teaching which emphasizes the teaching of
listening and speaking before reading and
writing
Q. Audio-lingual Method is also called?
Ans. Army Method Or New Key
Q. The study of the overall structure and
history of the vocabulary of a language is
called…….?
Ans. Lexicology
Q. What is the function of Wernicke’s area in
brain?
Ans. Comprehension of speech
Q. Where is Wernicke’s area located in
brain?
Ans. To the left, in the back
Q. What is International Phonetic Alphabet?
Ans. It is a series of symbols for the
representation of human speech sounds e.g.
the symbol “æ” is used for the “a” in cat and
the symbol “ʃ” is used for “sh” in shirt
Q. The full form of IPA is?
Ans. International Phonetic Alphabet
Q. Who devised International Phonetic
Alphabet?
Ans. An organization named International
Phonetic Association. It was established in
1886
Q. International Phonetic Alphabet was first
published in?
Ans. 1888
Q. Which method insists on learning
grammatical rules and translation and
ignores the skills of speaking and reading?
Ans. Grammar Translation Method
Q. The earliest method of learning a second
language is?
Ans. Grammar Translation Method
Q. As a reaction against the Grammar
Translation Method, which method came in
vogue?
Ans. Direct Method
Q. The Direct Method insists that?
Ans. Language has its roots in the spoken
language and lays stress on the oral approach
Q. What is denotative meaning?
Ans. The denotative meaning of a word is its
dictionary/main meaning e.g. the word
“blue” is a color whose hue is that of the clear
sky
Q. Denotative meaning is also called…..?
Ans. Conceptual meaning
Q. What is connotative meaning?
Ans. It is the suggestive and figurative
meaning of a word e.g. She is feeling blue.
Here “blue” means ‘sad’
Q. The phrase, ‘A Summer’s day’ in
Shakespeare’s verse “Shall I Compare Thee
To A Summer’s Day” is a classic example of?
Ans. Denotation
Q. R.P stands for?
Ans. Received Pronunciation
Q. What is Received Pronunciation?
Ans. It is the standard accent of British
pronunciation
Q. The older term used for the study of
languages was?
Ans. Philology. Now it’s Linguistics
Q. Most linguists are currently gathering
data on?
Ans. The poorly documented languages of the
world
Q. Which institute plays a big role in
gathering data on poorly documented
languages?
Ans. SIL International
Q. What was SIL International formerly
called?
Ans. The Summer Institute of Linguistics
Q. SIL International was established in the
USA in?
Ans. 1934
Q. How many languages are under
investigation by SIL linguists these days?
Ans. Over 1000 languages
Q. Grammar based on how people currently
use a language, not based on past usage of
language and grammar is called?
Ans. Descriptive Grammar
Q. In American English, if “t” occurs
between vowels it is pronounced as “d” e.g.
“writer” is pronounced as “Rider,” this is
called?
Ans. Flapping
Q. Which part of our brain controls the
articulatory muscles jaw and tongue etc.?
Ans. Motor cortex
Q. Language ability is located in ________of
our brain?
Ans. Left hemisphere
Q. What is syllable?
Ans. Any one of the parts into which a word
is divided when it is pronounced. Each part
must have a vowel e.g. the word doctor has
two syllables “doc” and “tor”
Q. If a long word is reduced to a single
syllable and then ‘y’ or ‘ie’ is added to the
end to make new words, this process is
called?
Ans. Hypocorism
(e.g. Breakfast to breaky, Timothy to Timmy)
Q. Which part of our brain is damaged when
we feel extreme difficulty in production of
speech?
Ans. Broca’s area
Q. Linguistics is not for learning a language.
It is for learning about a language?
Ans. True
Q. What is it called if in a multilingual
setting, one language becomes very dominant
over other languages?
Ans. Language shift
(multilingual setting means where more than
two languages are spoken)
Q. Damage in Wernicke’s area of brain
causes difficulty in?
Ans. Speech comprehension
Q. The total stock of words in a language is
called?
Ans. Lexis
Q. Who mapped the surface of the brain?
Ans. Korbinian Broadmann
Q. Who wrote the book Problems In
Neurolinguistics?
Ans. Alexander Luria
Q. A less educated variety of English is
spoken by working class people in London. It
is often called?
Ans. Cockney English
Q. How many properties of language are
there?
Ans. Six properties
Q. Human beings can talk about their
present, past and future. This property of
language is called?
Ans. Displacement
Q. There is no connection between a word
and its meaning. This property of language is
called?
Ans. Arbitrariness e.g. “cat” has been named
as “cat.” There is no connection between the
word “cat” and the animal “cat.” If cat had
been called “fan,” we would call it “fan”
today
Q. We can utter new words and sentences but
animals can’t. This property of language is
called?
Ans. Creativity OR Productivity
Q. A little change in the sound can change
the meaning. This property of language is
called?
Ans. Discreteness e.g. in the word “Cat” if
“b” is used instead of “c,” it becomes “bat”
Q. A hybrid language which develops its own
grammar and vocabulary and also acquires
the status of the native language of a group of
speakers is known as?
Ans. Creole
(Hybrid language means it is made up of two
or more languages)
Q. Give an example of Creole?
Ans. An example of creole is Chavacano
which is a Spanish creole made up of 70%
Spanish and 30% Tagalog etc.
Q. When back part of the tongue touches the
soft palate, the sounds produced are called?
Ans. Velar sounds e.g. “k” and “g”
Q. How many velar sounds are there in
English? Ans. Three. K, g, and ŋ
(ŋ stands for ng sound as in king)
Q. Received Pronunciation (RP) is associated
with?
Ans. BBC
Q. P and B are __ sounds in English?
Ans. Bi-labial. They are called bi-labial
sounds because both lips touch each other in
the pronunciation of these sounds
Q. Total number of sounds in English is?
Ans. 44
Q. Out of 44 sounds, total number of
consonant sounds in English is?
Ans. 24
(Total consonants are 21 out of 26 letters but
total consonant sounds are 24 out of total 44
sounds)
Q. Out of 44 sounds, total number of vowel
sounds in English is?
Ans. 20 vowel sounds
(Total vowels are 5 out of 26 letters but total
vowel sounds are 20 out of 44 sounds)
Q. The omission or deletion of some sound
from a word is known as?
Ans. Elision e.g. I dunno for “I don’t know”
and kinda for “kind of”
Q. Does the word ‘Europe’ begin with a
vowel sound?
Ans. No. It begins with “u” because “E” is
silent but “u” also does not function as vowel
here. “U” here sounds like “yoo” which is not
vowel sound
Q. The study of signs and symbols is called?
Ans. Semiotics e.g. traffic signs, emojis etc.
Q. The inability to produce or comprehend
speech because of damage to certain parts of
brain is called?
Ans. Aphasia
Q. When a baby is three months old, he/she
can produce velar sounds k, g and vowels i, u.
This stage is known as?
Ans. Cooing
Q. What is the difference between acquisition
and learning?
Ans. Acquisition is natural and learning is a
conscious effort to get language
Q. When we  mix L1 and L2 and make
another language, it is called?
Ans. Interlanguage
(L1 means language one which is usually our
native language. L2 means the language we
wish to learn)
Q. In 1348, English replaces Latin as the
language of instruction in most schools?
Ans. True
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Q. Nasal sounds in English are represented
by a small mark called?
Ans. Tilde e.g. [ṽ] the mark above “v” here
Q. Why can’t a scholar cover all
specializations of contemporary Linguistics?
Ans. Because it is a richly diversified field
Q. What continues to have a strong impact
on modern linguistics?
Ans. Generative Grammar by Noam
Chomsky
Q. How many languages are spoken
throughout the world?
Ans. Almost 7000
Q. Auditory Phonetics is also called?
Ans. Perceptual phonetics
(it is the study of how we perceive/hear
sounds)
Q. What is vernacular?
Ans. The language of ordinary speech rather
than formal writing
Q. The primary function of human
language is?
Ans. Communication
Q. What is language according to Chomsky?
Ans. It is a system represented in the
mind/brain of a particular individual
Q. What is Formal Linguistics?
Ans. It focuses on the technical aspects of
language such as phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics and
pragmatics
Q. What is Functional Linguistics?
Ans. It is focused on language in use by the
people
Q. Bound Morphemes fall into?
Ans. Two categories namely derivational and
inflectional
Q. What is Derivational morpheme?
Ans. Morphemes that make words of
different grammatical category from the
stem e.g. derivational morpheme ‘ness’
changes the adjective “good” to the noun
“goodness”
Q. What is inflectional morpheme?
Ans. Inflectional morphemes are used to
show if a word is plural or singular, if it is
past tense or not, and if it is comparative or
possessive form
Q. English has how many inflectional
morphemes?
Ans. Only eight. -‘s for possession and
-s or -es for plural; for verb -s, -ing, -ed, -en;
for adjective -er and -est
Q. The main difference between inflectional
and derivational morphemes is?
Ans. Inflectional morpheme doesn’t change
the category of a word while derivational
morpheme changes the category
Q………allow the grammatical inflection of
words and are used to change the syntactic
class of words?
Ans. Morphemes
(syntactic class means category of words e.g.
noun to adjective)
Q. “Allow” and “kick” are examples of which
type of morpheme?
Ans. Free morpheme
Q. A structuralist stresses speech and thereby
lays importance on?
Ans. Phonology
Q. Who said, “Words are like bottles that
contain ideas as bottles contain medicines?”
Ans. H. Dippie
Q. Those words which are actively used by us
are known as?
Ans. Active vocabulary
Q. How are speech sounds produced?
Ans. When the air is pushed out by the lungs
up through the windpipe to the larynx
Q. Inside the larynx are?
Ans. Vocal cords
Q. How many basic positions do
vocal cords take?
Ans. Two e.g. the production of voiced
sounds and the production of voiceless
sounds
Q. During the articulation of a speech sound,
when vocal cords are spread apart and there
is no vibration?
Ans. Then that speech sound is called
voiceless sound e.g. k, p, s, etc.
Q. During the articulation of a speech sound,
when vocal cords are drawn together and
there is vibration?
Ans. Then that speech sound is called voiced
sound e.g. b, D, g, z etc.
Q. What is the trick to know if a speech
sound is voiceless or voiced?
Ans. Put a finger in each ear, produce Z
sound, you’ll hear vibration, it’s voiced.
Similarly produce S sound which is voiceless
because of no vibration
Q. What is Eponym?
Ans. New words based on the name of a
person or place are called Eponyms e.g. the
word “jeans” from the Italian city “Genoa”
where this type of cloth was first made
Q. What is Backformation?
Ans. The process of reducing a word such as
a noun to a shorter version and using it as a
new word such as a verb e.g. “babysit” from
“babysitter”
Q. What is Borrowing?
Ans. The process of taking of words from
other languages. As English has taken words
from many languages
Q. What is a Flap?
Ans. If you pronounce the word ‘butter’ in a
way that is close to the word ‘budder’, then
you are making a flap
Q. How is a Flap produced?
Ans. It is a sound produced with the tongue
tip briefly touching the alveolar ridge
Q. How many categories of sounds are there?
Ans. Three. Phones, Phonemes and
Allophones
Q. What are phones OR sounds?
Ans. Phones are general human sounds
irrespective of their place in the sound system
of a language
Q. Phonology is based on the theory that?
Ans. Every speaker of a language
unconsciously knows about the sound
systems/patterns of that language
Q. Phonology is about?
Ans. The general sounds i.e. when we think of
the ‘t’ sound in the words “tar, star, writer”
as being the same, we actually mean that
phonologically, although phonetically they
are different
Q. What is Compounding?
Ans. The process of combining two or more
words to form a new word e.g. bookcases,
textbook, fingerprint
Q. What is Blending?
Ans. The process of combining the beginning
of one word and the end of another word to
form a new word e.g. “brunch” from
“breakfast” and “lunch” ; “smog” from
“smoke” and “fog”
Q. What is clipping?
Ans. The process of reducing a word of more
than one syllable to a shorter form e.g. ‘ad’
from “advertisement” and ‘flu’ from
“influenza”
Q. What is used to indicate phoneme in
abstract?
Ans. Slash marks e.g. /t/, /k/
Q. What is used to indicate each physically
produced sound also called stops or plosives?
Ans. Square brackets as in [t], [k]
Q. An essential property of phoneme is that?
Ans. It functions contrastively e.g. the
phonemes /f/ and /v/ in fat and vat. Meaning
changes if we substitute f or v
Q. In phonology what do we use in charts for
an existing feature or missing feature?
Ans. + sign for existing feature and – sign for
missing featurere e.g. +voice for voiced
sounds and -voice for voiceless
Q. What is Hypocorism?
Ans. A process in which a longer word is
reduced to a shorter form with y or ie at the
end e.g. “movie” from “moving pictures” and
‘telly’ from “television”
Q. What is Conversion?
Ans. The process of changing the function of
a word, such as a noun to a verb e.g. the noun
“vacation” as a verb in
“they are vacationing in Lahore”
Q. What are Acronyms?
Ans. Acronyms are new words formed from
the initial letters of a set of other words e.g.
NASA from National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Q. What are aspirated speech sounds?
Ans. Aspirated sounds are pronounced with a
forceful expulsion of air e.g. p, t and k in pat,
top and keel
Q. What is consonant cluster?
Ans. Two or more consonants in sequence is
called Consonant Cluster e.g. st in stop
Q. What is Affix?
Ans. A bound morpheme such as un- or ed-
added to a word e.g. undressed
Q. What is Derivation?
Ans. The process of forming new words by
adding affixes e.g. “unhappy” from “happy”
and “misrepresent” from “represent”
Q. What is deixis?
Ans. A deictic expression or deixis
is a word or phrase
(such as this, that, these, those, now, then,
here) that points to the time, place, or
situation in which a speaker is speaking
Q. How many main types of deixes are there?
Ans. Three. Personal deixis e.g. personal
pronouns; spacial deixis e.g. this, that, here,
there; temporal deixis e.g. now, then,
yesterday, tomorrow
Q. What is jargon?
Ans. It is special technical vocabulary
Q. What helps to create and maintain
relations among those who see themselves as
insiders and to exclude outsiders?
Ans. Jargon
Q. What is more typically used among those
who are outside established higher-status
groups?
Ans. Slang
(Linguistics MCQs Part 03)
Q. What is Co-articulation?
Ans. In spoken language, the process of
making one sound almost at the same time as
the next sound is called Co-articulation
Q. What are the two well-known co-
articulation effects?
Ans. Assimilation and Elision
Q. What is Assimilation?
Ans. The process by which one sound
becomes more like a nearby sound e.g.
Handbag is pronounced as hanbag
Q. What is Elision?
Ans. Elision is the omission of sounds in
speech e.g. we pronounce the phrase ‘he must
be’ as ‘he mus be’
Q. The term used for the study of the
relationship between language and society is?
Ans. Sociolinguistics
Q. What is pidgin?
Ans. A language formed from a mixture of
several languages which is used by speakers
of different languages who don’t know each
other’s languages
Q. Pidgin is actually?
Ans. A contact language which would have
no native speakers
Q. What is creole?
Ans. When a pidgin develops beyond its role
as a contact language and becomes the first
language of a social community, it is called
Creole
Q. What is pattern practice?
Ans. It is a technique in which students
repeat a sentence. They either change words
e.g. “verb” or they change a statement to a
question etc.
Q. Communicative approaches are a reaction
against the artificiality of?
Ans. Pattern practice
Q. Grammar Translation Method makes use
of pattern practice?
Ans. True
Q. Lists of vocabulary and sets of grammar
are focused in?
Ans. Grammar Translation Method
Q. What is syntagmatic relationship?
Ans. The words in a sentence form a
horizontal relationship that creates meaning.
If you change the order of words in a
sentence it can change the meaning e.g.
“John ate an octopus” becomes “An octopus
ate John” This relationship is horizontal.
This means that changes take place
horizontally (A sentence is horizontal like a
row)
Q. What is paradigmatic relationship?
Ans. In paradigmatic relationship, words of
the same class are interchangeable in the
same place in a sentence e.g. “John ate an
octopus” becomes “John ate an apple”
(here a noun is replaced by another noun)
Paradigmatic relationship is vertical. This
means that changes take place in a sentence
vertically. Words in a sentence are vertical
like cloumns. Every word in a sentence is
kinda column
Q. A very important reason for regarding
English as a world language is that?
Ans. World’s knowledge is enshrined in
English
Q. Who has made a distinction between
English as a foreign language and English as
a second language?
Ans. Albert H. Marckwardt
Q. Who did state that English is the means of
communication between the East and the
West Pakistan?
Ans. Ayub Khan
Q. English has been the language of the
academics in the sub-continent since?
Ans. 19th century
Q. Which languages of the sub-continent
were replaced by English with the British
Conquest?
Ans. Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit
Q. A growing number of people are studying
Linguistics in order to?
Ans. Describe and document their own
languages
Q. Why do linguists feel the need of the
description of languages?
Ans. Because many of the world’s languages
are endangered
Q. Linguistics has been applied to a vast
range of practical concerns?
Ans. True
Q. The role of Linguistics in Computational
field is?
Ans. Recognition of speech, automatic
parsing of texts, building large collection of
texts
Q. How are linguists helpful in the legal
domain?
Ans. Linguists are called for help in legal
domain to identify speaker from voice
recording
Q. The importance of English in the
academic set-up is apparent from the fact
that?
Ans. English is compulsory at the graduate
level
Q. In learning a new language, what is chief
problem after the mastery of sound system?
Ans. Learning vocabulary
Q. Limitations of Direct Method are?
Ans. Neglect of the reading and writing skills.
It ignores the study of Grammar
Q. Why are the Direct Method and Grammar
Translation Method important in spite of
their limitations?
Ans. Because of primacy of speech and habit
formation
Q. Language is primarily a spoken thing and
therefore our approach to a foreign language
should be?
Ans. Its spoken form
Q. Since language arises from situation, the
teacher’s task is to create a situation from
which……?
Ans. Language will arise easily and naturally
Q. Structural Method stresses that we should
know well how the?
Ans. Word order and word forms are
employed to make sentences
Q. Procedure that may be followed in the
Structural Method is?
Ans. Creating situations to teach the
structure, individual drill or chorus work
and reading from the substitution tables
Q. Chomsky considers grammar to be a?
Ans. A formal system
Q. Chomsky said that it is through grammar
rules that?
Ans. Grammatical sentences of a language
can be generated
Q. The tradition which Chomsky developed
is called?
Ans. Generative Grammar

Q. Who is called the father of modern

Linguistics?
Ans. Noam Chomsky
Q. Chomsky played a big role in the decline
of?
Ans. Behaviorism
Q. Chomsky was born in?
Ans. 1928
Q. Language teaching is sometimes discussed
in terms of a few related aspects, namely?
Ans. Method, Approach and Technique
Q. Different theories about the nature of
language and how languages are learnt are
called?
Ans. Approaches e.g.
Communicative approach
Q. A particular trick or strategy used to
accomplish an immediate objective is called?
Ans. Technique e.g. student is given a
grammar rule and he/she applies the rule by
using new words
Q. Grammar Translation Method (GTM) is
also called?
Ans. The Classical Method OR The Natural
Method
Q. Classical Method was named Grammar
Translation Method in?
Ans. 19th century
Q. Chomsky adopted whose approach to the
study of language?
Ans. The linguist Zellig S. Harris
Q. Functional Linguistics has its basis in the
works of?
Ans. The Prague School and J. R Firth
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Q. The ‘s’ in the verb of the sentence
“She sings well” is…..?
Ans. Morpheme signaling third person
singular
(verb is “sing” here)
Q. The ‘or’ in actor is…….?
Ans. Noun-forming morpheme.
(mostly “or” forms nouns e.g. direct becomes
director, invent becomes inventor etc.)
Q. /m/ is…….?
Ans. Bilabial-nasal consonant
(means it is both bilabial and nasal)
Q. How many types of phonetic
transcriptions are generally followed?
Ans. Two
(phonetic transcription and phonemic
transcription)
(Linguistics MCQs Part 02)
Q. What is the difference between phonetic
transcription and phonemic transcription?
Ans. Phonetic transcription uses square
brackets for symbols e.g. [T] while phonemic
transcription uses forward slashes for
symbols e.g. /t/
Q. The preceding sound (coming before)
influencing the following sound
(coming after) is an instance of?
Ans. Progressive assimilation
e.g. “ten bucks” is pronounced “tembucks”
by native speakers. It is also known as left to
right assimilation
Q. What is regressive assimilation?
Ans. In it the following sound has an effect on
the preceding sound e.g. pronouncing “have”
in “have to” as [haf]
Q. The special features in our talks such as
stress, pitch and intonation are called?
Ans. Supra-segmental phonemes OR
secondary phonemes OR prosodic features
Q. What is palato-alveolar sound?
Ans. Sounds which are produced with the
tongue raised towards the hard palate and
the tip of the tongue against the alveolar
ridge
(Alveolar ridge is the hard area behind your
top front teeth)
Q. The initial sounds in the words ‘ship’
‘church’ and ‘judge’ are examples of?
Ans. Palato-alveolar
Q. What is post-alveolar sound?
Ans. These sounds are made with the tongue
positioned slightly behind the alveolar ridge.
Same examples as those of palato-alveolar
e.g. “sh” in ship ; “ch” in church
Q. Sounds articulated by raising the front of
the tongue towards the hard palate are
called?
Ans. Palatal
Q. How many palatal sounds are there in
English?
Ans. There is only one palatal consonant [j]
in English which is the sound for “y” in the
English word “yes”
Q. Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue
placed against the upper teeth are called?
Ans. Dental
(There are two dental consonants in
English, /θ/ and /ð/, the first one is for the
“th” in “thing” and the second one is for the
“th” in that)
Q. What is Triphthong?
Ans. Three written vowel characters
representing the sound of a single vowel as
‘eau’ in “beautiful”
Q. What is Reduplication?
Ans. Reduplication refers to words formed
through repetition of sounds.
e.g. okey-dokey, film-flam, and pitter-patter
and Urdu example khaana shaana
Q. The classification of vowels into tense
vowels and lax vowels is based on?
Ans. The state of the tension of the tongue
Q. Plosives are also called?
Ans. Stops
(These sounds are made when airflow is
completely stopped e.g. p, t, k etc.)
Q. The “ish” in the word ‘childish’ is?
Ans. An adjective-forming morpheme
Q. What is Case?
Ans. Case is the grammatical function of a
noun or pronoun. There are only three cases
in modern English, they are subjective (he),
objective (him) and possessive (his)
Q. A language variety with non-standard
usage and pronunciation that’s only heard in
one area is called?
Ans. A local dialect
Q. What is the term used for the relationship
which exists between languages that are
members of the same language family?
Ans. Genetic relationship
Q. Which language has a structure that
serves the purpose of a definite article?
Ans. Swedish
(it means that Swedish language also has a
word for definite article as we have “the” in
English)
Q. The study of dialects is called?
Ans. Dialectology
Q. In dialectology, what is the line on a map
called which divides areas with different
spelling of a word, pronunciation or
meaning?
Ans. Isoglass
Q. What is lexeme?
Ans. Lexeme is the basic or dictionary form
of a word. Each inflected form of a lexeme is
called a word-form e.g. “sing, sang, sung,
singing, sings” are each a word-form and
each one belongs to the lexeme SING
Q. Which is the most common syllable shape
in world’s languages?
Ans. CV (consonant followed by vowel)
Q. To make a nasal sound, what do we do?
Ans. We lower the velum
Q. The  way a speaker uses language
differently in different circumstances is
called….?
Ans. Register
(Your words, tone and body language are
different when talking to a friend, and
different in a job interview)
Q. Language which may be situational as in
church and occupational as among lawyers is
called……?
Ans. Register
Q. As per Chomsky deep structure refers to
concepts, thoughts, ideas & feelings whereas
surface structure refers to the words or
language we use to represent the deep
structure?
Ans. True
Q. Deep structure is what you wish to express
and surface structure is how you express it
with the help of words and sentence?
Ans. True
Q. What is dialect?
Ans. A variety of a language that is
distinguished from other varieties of the same
language in pronunciation, grammar and
vocabulary
Q. The changing of the form of a verb in
order to reflect person, number, tense and
mood is called?
Ans. Conjugation. We have to conjugate
verbs because the basic forms e.g. “to play”
don’t express what we want to express
Q. What is Neurolinguistics?
Ans. It deals with the relationship between
language and the structure and functioning
of the brain          
Q. Neurolinguistics is closely related
to the field of…….?
Ans. Psycholinguistics
Q. What is Aphasia?
Ans. It is a disorder that results from damage
to areas of the brain that produce and
process language. A person with aphasia can
have trouble speaking, reading, writing, and
understanding language
Q. Which terms did Chomsky introduce in
1965?
Ans. Acceptable/unacceptable
Q. L and t are called?
Ans. Liquid consonants.
(It is a consonant sound in which the tongue
produces a partial closure in the mouth
resulting in vowel-like consonant)
Q. In linguistics, the term used for
incomplete closure is called?
Ans. Fricative
Q. The sound of the word ”of” is?
Ans. Fricative
Q. The k in kill and skill are?
Ans. Allophones of the phoneme “k”
Q. The initial “L” and the final “L” in the
word ‘little’ are examples of?
Ans. Allophones of the phoneme “L”
Q. Dialect boundary is known as?
Ans. Isoglass
Q. Working class and aristocracy are
examples of?
Ans. Class dialect
Q……deals with a set of grammar rules and
focuses on the teaching of grammar rules?
Ans. Prescriptive approach
Q. According to what, how language is used
is important rather than how language
should be used?
Ans. Descriptive approach
Q. Words that cannot be fully understood
without the physical context of the speaker
are called?
Ans. Dixies e.g. If someone says, I broke this
finger. You have to look at the finger or else
you will not not know which finger is broken
Q. Conventional knowledge which exists in
memory is called?
Ans. Schema e.g. your schema for your friend
might include information about her
appearance, her behavior, her personality
and her preferences
Q. What is Affix?
Ans. An affix is a set of letters added to the
beginning or end of a root word to modify its
meaning e.g. in the word “untouchable,”
“un” and “able” are affixes
Q. All affixes in English are?
Ans. Bound morphemes
Q. The word to which affixes are attached is
technically known as?
Ans. Stem or root word e.g. “touch” is the
root word in “untouchable”
Q. The personal dialect of each individual
speaker of a language is called?
Ans. Idiolect
Q. Technical vocabulary associated with a
particular group or field is called?
Ans. Jargon
Q. Give two examples of jargon?
Ans. (1) I need a script in order to pick up
the medicine. [medical jargon for
prescription]
I need a nurse to room 12 stat.
[medical jargon for “in a hurry”]
Q. Who is the originator of structuralism?
Ans. Saussure
Q. What is Structuralism?
Ans. A way of studying human culture, for
example language, literature, art, or
anthropology, that emphasizes the
importance of its basic structures and the
relationships between its parts
(basic structures mean the overall system)
Q. What is Recursion?
Ans. It is the repetition of something. It might
be the repetition of words or grammar rules
Q. Give two examples of repetition?
Ans. “I am very tired” can be written as “I
am very very tired” ; Ahmad and Ali and
Jawad and Adnan and Talha and Zakir and
Hina and Abida were in school
(here recursion of coordinating conjunction
could be seen)
Q. The study of_______ looks at all the ways
particular words and phrases are being
used?
Ans. Usage
Q. As components of a sign, both signifier
and signified are?
Ans. Psychological
Q. Chomsky’s concept of competence is?
Ans. Biological
Q. In linguistics, complete closure followed
by a sudden release of air is called?
Ans. Plosive or Stop e.g. “p, t and k”
Q. The term used in phonology to describe
what happens when the distinction between
two phonemes is lost in particular
environment?
Ans. Neutralization e.g. in “ladder” and
“later”
Q. The number of monophthongs in English
is?
Ans. 12. A monophthong is where there is
one vowel sound in a syllable e.g. “o” in
“Hop”
Q. The number of diphthongs in English is?
Ans. Eight
(A diphthong is where there are two vowel
sounds in a syllable e.g. “ea” in “fear”
Q. “c, t, and d” are…….?
Ans. Alveolar sounds
(Alveolar sounds are articulated with the
tongue against or close to the alveolar ridge)
Q. There are _______main articulators?
Ans. 8
(articulators are organs that help us to
pronounce words)
Q. What are the eight main articulators?
Ans.  Tongue, both lips, upper teeth, upper
gum, hard palate, soft palate, uvulva and
glottis
Q. Displacement, Creativity, Discreteness,
Arbitrariness, Duality and Cultural
Transmission are the six…….?
Ans. Properties of language
Q. Associative meaning?
Ans. The type of meaning that people connect
with words e.g. the word needle may be
associated with “pain, illness, blood, drugs or
knitting”
Q. Conceptual meaning is also called?
Ans. Denotative meaning which means
dictionary meaning
Q. Associative meaning is also called?
Ans. Connotative meaning which means what
the words actually connote in different
situations
Q. What is Coinage?
Ans. The invention of new words e.g. “xerox”
Q. The most typical sources of Coinage are?
Ans. Commercial products that become
general terms e.g. aspirin, nylon, zipper
Q. The most salient contemporary example of
Coinage is?
Ans. The word “Google” which is originally a
misspelling for the word “googol”
Q. What is meant by Semantic Features in
Semantics?
Ans. Semantic features are basic elements
used in the analysis of words e.g. the
semantic features of a horse will be +animate,
-human, -female, +adult
(plus means the feature is present, minus
means the feature is missing)
Q. Give an example of a semantically
incorrect sentence?
Ans. “The dog is reading the newspaper.”
This sentence is structurally correct but
semantically incorrect
Q. What is Semantic Role?
Ans. The part played by a noun phrase, such
as the subject, in a sentence is called semantic
role
Q. Semantic Roles are also called?
Ans. Thematic Roles
Q. What is Morph?
Ans. Morph is the other name of morpheme
e.g. the word “cats” consists of two
morphemes “cat” and “-s”. “cat”is lexical
morpheme and “-s” is inflectional morpheme
Q. Morphology plays an important role in?
Ans. Theories of the acquisition of language
and in theories of language change
Q. Our morphological knowledge has what
two components?
Ans. Knowledge of the individual morphemes
AND knowledge of the rules that combine
them
Q. How many common semantic roles are
there?
Ans. 7
Q. What is the first semantic role which is
called Agent OR Doer?
Ans. Agent is the doer of an action e.g.
‘Ahmad’ in the sentence, “Ahmad called
me.”
Q. What is the second semantic role which is
called Patient OR Theme?
Ans. It refers to what is acted upon by the
Agent e.g. ‘boat’ in the sentence, “John
steered the boat.”
Q. What is the third semantic role which is
called Recipient OR Receiver?
Ans. It indicates a receiver in a situation e.g.
‘Ali’ in the sentence, “The children sent Ali a
postcard.”
Q. What is the fourth semantic role which is
called Instrument?
Ans. It identifies the thing that is used to
perform an action e.g. ‘Razor’ in the
sentence, “The boy cut the rope with a
razor.”
Q. What is the fifth semantic role which is
called Experimenter?
Ans. It is the entity that has the feeling e.g.
‘The Boy’ in the sentence, “The Boy feels
bad.”
Q. What is the sixth semantic role which is
called Source?
Ans. It identifies the place from which living
beings move OR from which things are
moved e.g. ‘The House’ in the sentence, “The
Boy ran from the house.”
Q. What is the seventh semantic role which is
called Goal?
Ans. It identifies where living beings move to
OR where things are moved to e.g. the
window in the sentence, “The boy walked to
the window.”
Q. Does a semantic role change in passive
voice?
Ans. No, because nothing changes in the real
world e.g. “John steered the boat” becomes
“The boat was steered by John.” Still John is
the Agent/doer
Q. The ng sound in “sing, sang” is called?
Ans. Angma
Q. What is Glottis?
Ans. The space between the vocal cords
Q. What are Glottal sounds?
Ans. A speech sound produced in the space
between the vocal cords e.g. “H” in “hat”
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Q. The study of “biology and the evolution of
language” is called?
Ans. Biolinguistics
Q. The knowledge possessed by native users
of a language which enables them to speak
and understand their language fluently is
called?
Ans. Competence
Q. Who argues that language is a unique
evolutionary development of the human
species?
Ans. Chomsky
Q. What is Phonetics?
Ans. It studies how humans produce and
perceive (hear) sounds
Q. How many branches of Phonetics are
there?
Ans. Three
(Articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics,
acoustic phonetics)
Q. The study of how speech sounds are made
is called?
Ans. Articulatory Phonetics
Q………deals with the hearing of speech
sounds via the ears?
Ans. Auditory Phonetics
Q. The combination of two vowel sounds is
called?
Ans. Diphthongs e.g. /aɪ/ as in “Light”
Q. What is Diachronic Linguistics?
Ans. It studies the development of language
through history
(Basically It studies how languages or words
and grammar changed across time)
Q. What is Synchronic Linguistics?
Ans. It studies the use of language in a given
community in a given time
(Basically It studies language variation from
place to place and person to person)
Q. What is Comparative Linguistics?
Ans. It deals with comparing two or more
languages. It may also deal with comparing
one language spoken in different regions
Q. How many levels OR subsystems of
Linguistics are there according to Hockett?
Ans. Five
Q. What are the five levels OR subsystems of
Linguistics according to Hockett?
Ans. The grammatical system, the
phonological system, the morphemic system,
the semantic system, the phonemic system
Q. The word linguistics has been derived
from?
Ans. Latin
(“lingua” means tongue, “istics” means
knowledge)
Q. Sociolinguistics deals with how language is
used in…….?
Ans. Society
Q…………is the variety of language spoken
by a particular group of people in a
community?
Ans. Sociolect e.g. “We are friends” may be
used as “We are partners”
Q………..is a variety of language used by one
individual speaker?
Ans. Idiolect e.g. a person may call
sandwiches as “sammies” and air
conditioners as “cool blasterz”
Q. How many short vowel sounds are there in
English?
Ans. 7
(Linguistics MCQs Part 01)
Q. What are the seven short vowel sounds in
English?
Ans. (æ) in cat, (e) in peg, (I) in pin, (ɒ) in
hot, (ʌ) in hut, (Ʊ) in bull, (ǝ or schwa) in
zebra
Q. How many long vowel sounds are there in
English?
Ans. 5 (  /i:/ in heat, /ɑ:/ in dark  /ɔ:/ in
horse /ɜ:/ in hurt /u:/ in room )
Q. Rise and fall of  voice in speaking is
called?
Ans. Intonation
Q. A person who can speak only one
language is called?
Ans. Mono-lingual
Q. A person who can speak two languages is
called?
Ans. Bi-lingual
Q. A person who can speak more than two
languages is called?
Ans. Multi-lingual
Q. The degree of force with which a syllable
or a word is uttered, is called?
Ans. Stress e.g. in the word China, the
syllable “CHI” is stressed and it’s written
this way, CHIna
Q. What is Allophone?
Ans. It is the variants of the same phoneme.
Example: The aspirated \p\ of ‘pin’ and
the unaspirated \p\ of ‘spin’ are allophones of
the phoneme \p\
(Aspirated is one which is pronounced with
forceful expulsion of air. Therefore, “pin” is
pronounced as “phin”)
Q. How many stress types are there?
Ans. Four
(Tonic stress, Emphatic stress, Contrastive
stress, New information stress)
Q. How many nasal sounds are there in the
English Language?
Ans. Three e.g. “m, n, ng”
Q. The /k/ in ‘kill’ and ‘skill’ are?
Ans. Allophones of the phoneme ‘k’
Q. The final consonants /s/, /z/ and /iz/ in the
words ‘cats,’ ‘dogs,’ and ‘boxes’ are
examples of?
Ans. Allophones
Q. The word ‘dog’ is……..?
Ans. A free morpheme.
(It is free because it can stand alone)
Q. Who has given the terms synchronic and
diachronic?
Ans. Saussure gave in 1916
Q. Saussure gives priority to?
Ans. Synchronic approach over diachronic
approach.
(Diachronic is historic approach to the study
of language while synchronic is the
contemporary approach)
Q. Who gave the concepts of langue and
parole?
Ans. Saussure
Q. The set of all possible grammatical
sentences in a language is called?
Ans. Langue
Q. The set of all utterances that have actually
been produced in a language is called?
Ans. Parole
Q. What is synchrony?
Ans. It refers to the state of a language as it
exists at any given time
Q. Who wrote, “Language may be defined as
the expression of thought by means of speech
sounds?”
Ans. Henry Sweet
Q. Science which studies the origin,
organization, nature and development of
language descriptively, historically,
comparatively and explicitly and formulates
the general rules related to language is
called?
Ans. Linguistics
Q. What is Syntax?
Ans. The set of rules to form phrases, clauses
OR sentences
Q. What is Phonology?
Ans. It is the study of sounds in a particular
language
Q. Robert Hall recommends what three levels
OR subdivisions of Linguistics?
Ans. Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
Q. According to the position of lips, vowels
can be divided into?
Ans. Rounded vowels and unrounded vowels
Q. Define rounded vowel?
Ans. The production of a vowel with the lips
rounded is called rounded vowel e.g. “o” in
“note,” “oo” in “look,” the “u” sound in
“rule” etc.
Q. Define unrounded vowel?
Ans. The unrounded vowels are letters that
are produced with more relaxed lips
e.g. “I” in hit, “a” in cat etc.
Q. According to the part of the tongue that is
raised, vowels can be divided into?
Ans. Front vowels and back vowels
Q. Define front vowels?
Ans. Front vowels are produced with the
front of the tongue raised towards the hard
palate e.g. “a” in “had,” the “e” in “bed,”
and the “i” in “fit” are front vowels
Q. Define back vowels?
Ans. Any vowel sound produced in the back
of the mouth e.g. “u” in “rule” and “o” in
“pole”
Q. Chomsky was born in?
Ans. 1928
Q. Father of modern linguistics is?
Ans. Noam Chomsky
Q. Generative Grammar focuses primarily
on the form of a sentence rather than its
communicative competence?
Ans. True
Q. The hypothesis of………is that language is
a system of the human mind?
Ans. Generative Grammar
Q. Chomsky developed Transformational
Generative Grammar in?
Ans. 1950
Q. In Transformational Generative
Grammar, the word “Generative” means?
Ans. To produce
Q. Who wrote the book Reflections on
Language?
Ans. Noam Chomsky
Q. What do the two forward slashes
represent?
Ans. Phonetic Transcription e.g. ‘clean’ is
transcribed as /klin/
Q. The term Semiology was introduced by?
Ans. Ferdinand De Saussure
Q. Philology is a branch of linguistics?
Ans. False. It is the old name of Linguistics
Q. Which airstream mechanism is used for
the pronunciation of the English language?
Ans. Pulmonic Egressive Airstream
Mechanism
Q. What are Vocal Cords?
Ans. The part of our throat that vibrates
when we speak
Q. Vocal cords are situated in?
Ans. Larynx
Q. What is larynx?
Ans. The area of the throat which contains
the vocal cords and is used for breathing,
swallowing and talking.  It is also called
Voice Box
Q. The most flexible organ of speech is?
Ans. The tongue
Q. What is the scientific name of the soft
palate?
Ans. The Velum
Q. Tip, blade, front, back and root are the
parts of?
Ans. Tongue
(These names have been written in sequence
here)
Q. What are the two types of articulators?
Ans. Active Articulators and passive
articulators
Q. What are active articulators?
Ans. Articulators that move towards another
articulator in the production of a speech
sound are called active articulators e.g. lower
lip, tongue tip, tongue blade, tongue front,
tongue back, tongue root, vocal cords
Q. What are passive articulators?
Ans. Articulators that remain stationary in
the production of a speech sound e.g. Upper
lip, upper teeth, the roof of the mouth, and
the rear wall
Q. The application of linguistic theory to real
world problems is called?
Ans. Applied Linguistics
Q……….is concerned with rules for correct
usage. It tells you how to speak correctly?
Ans. Prescriptive Grammar
Q. The ability to both send and receive
messages is called?
Ans. Interchangeability
Q. Define Glossolalia?
Ans. Incomprehensible speech in an
imaginary language, sometimes occurring in
a trance state e.g. Oh, glaffobalbaness! The
fliggit is fanging in the frubor, you knowsta!
Q. What is Stylistics?
Ans. It is concerned with the study of style in
texts, especially literary works
Q. It is the study of the evolution of written
scripts in a language?
Ans. Palaeography
Q. Who were the first to use the word
“Grammar” in its modern sense?
Ans. Greeks
Q. Who described grammar as the art of
writing?
Ans. Plato
Q. Bloomfield attributes the first great
scientific linguistic work of the world to?
Ans. Jacob Grimm
Q. What is Accent?
Ans. The way in which people in a particular
area or country pronounce words e.g. An
American might pronounce the word,
“hello,” by speaking the “h” sound. A British
might pronounce the word, “hello,” without
speaking the “h” sound “ello”
Q. What is Adjacency pair?
Ans. It is composed of two utterances by two
speakers, one after the other. Second
utterance is an answer to the first utterance
e.g. “What’s your name?” “I’m James”
Q. What is Age-grading?
Ans. Age-grading occurs when individuals
change their speech habits thoroughout their
lifetimes e.g. old people don’t use “lol” in
their conversation but adolescents use
Q. What is Acrolect?
Ans. It is the most prestigious variety of a
particular language
Q. What is Code-mixing?
Ans. The use of more than one language or
variety in conversation e.g.
Usny LIGHT ON nahii kee aor
UNFORTUNATELY glass gira aor toot gaya
Q……….is the property that enables humans
to think and talk about language itself?
Ans. Reflexivity
Q……….are based on the belief that the
functions of language should be emphasized,
not the forms of language?
Ans. Communicative approaches
(functions of language mean what language is
used for, forms of language mean how
language is written correctly)
Q. What is communicative competence?
Ans. The general ability to use language to
communicate successfully
Q. Grammatical competence is the ability to
use………accurately?
Ans. Grammar
Q. Concentration on……..only will not make
an L2 learner able to make or explain L2
expressions?
Ans. Grammatical competence
Q. The unconscious knowledge of rules that
every human possesses is called?
Ans. Linguistic competence
Q. What is sociolinguistic competence?
Ans. The ability to use language
appropriately in society
Q…………could be either formal or
informal?
Ans. Speech style
Q. A change from one speech style to another
is called?
Ans. Style-shifting e.g. shifting from formal
style to informal while talking to someone
Q. What is Slang?
Ans. It is an informal language. It consists of
words that are not a part of standard
vocabulary or language, and which are used
informally e.g. You are so hungry that you
are angry!
Q. Slang is also called?
Ans. Colloquial speech
Q. In diglossia, there is a……..variety. This
variety is acquired locally and it is used for
everyday affairs?
Ans. Low
Q. In diglossia, there is a……… variety. This
variety is learned at school and it is used for
important matters?
Ans. High
Q. Prescriptive approach was taken by a
number of influenctial grammarians
in……..?
Ans. 18th century England
Q. The central role of syntax within
theoretical linguistics became clear only in
the……….?
Ans. 20th century
Q. What is pragmatic competence?
Ans. The ability to understand another
person’s intended meaning is called
pragmatic competence
Q. Developmental Psycholinguistics studies
children’s ability to learn language?
Ans. True
Q. What is the phonetic definition of vowel?
Ans. A sound produced with no constriction
in the vocal tract
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