Language And Linguistics(English Literature ) Questions and Answers

Question 1. 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.
  1.    Syntagmatic
  2.    Synergy
  3.    Performance
  4.    N. O. T
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Syntagmatic
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Question 2. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
  1.    Synchrony
  2.    Diachrony
  3.    Paradigmatic
  4.    N. O. T
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Synchrony
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Question 3. 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 ?
  1.    Productivity
  2.    Langue
  3.    Paradigmatic
  4.    Parole
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Productivity
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Question 4. The system of communication within a community.
  1.    Langue
  2.    Parole
  3.    Paradigmatic
  4.    N. O. T
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Langue
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Question 5. The study of signs is termed as_________?
  1.    Semiotics
  2.    Semantics
  3.    Paradigmatic
  4.    Parole
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Semiotics
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Question 6. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’
  1.    Performance
  2.    Parole
  3.    Paradigmatic
  4.    N. O. T
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Performance
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Question 7. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
  1.    Both b and c
  2.    Diachrony/Synchrony
  3.    Acceptable/Unacceptable
  4.    N. O. T
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> Acceptable/Unacceptable
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Question 8. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
  1.    Sociolinguistics
  2.    Psycholinguisctics
  3.    Biolinguistics
  4.    None of these
Explanation:-
Answer: Option B. -> Psycholinguisctics
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Question 9. 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 ?
  1.    Ferdenand de Sassure
  2.    Albert Chomsky
  3.    Noam Chomsky
  4.    Noah Webster
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> Noam Chomsky
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Question 10. There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
  1.    22
  2.    23
  3.    24
  4.    25
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> 24
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