In General Linguistics MCQs we will cover the Course of Theories Of Language Origin ,Properties Of Human Language , Phonetics , Phonology , Word Formation Processes , Morphology , Syntax , Semantics
Pragmatics , Discourse Analysis , Language And Brain ,First Language Acquisition , Second Language Learning , Gestures And Sign Language , Language And Regional Variations , Language And Social Variations Language , Culture And Human Thought
General Linguistics MCQs
1. Which of the following is an example of a rule of Articulation?
A. IPA
B. Alveolar ridge
C. Consonants sounds
D. Voiced/voiceless
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2. A special type of borrowing is described as.
A. Loan-translation
B. Calque
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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3. There is a joining of two separate words to produce a single form, technically known as.
A. Compounding
B. Blending
C. Clipping
D. Borrowing
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4. ______ are new words formed from the initial letters of a set of other words.
A. Acronym
B. Suffixes
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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5. The second set of bound morphemes contains.
A. Derivational morphemes
B. Inflectional morphemes
C. Lexical morphemes
D. Functional morphemes
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6. Nasalization can be represented with a small diacritic (~), called.
A. Vowel
B. Nasal
C. Tilde
D. Transcription
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7. What does IPA stands for?
A. Indian phonetic alphabet
B. Illustrated phonetic alphabets
C. International phonetic alphabets
D. None of these
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8. The aspect of the relationship between words and objects is described as _______.
A. Displacement
B. Arbitrariness
C. Arbitrary
D. Both B and C
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9. Human language is organized at two levels simultaneously. This property is called.
A. Productivity
B. Dual sound
C. Reference
D. Duality
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10. Which consonants are made with both lips?
A. Bilabial
B. Labiodentals
C. Dentals
D. Voiceless
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11. The invention and general use of totally new terms, or ______ is not very common in English.
A. Coinage
B. Eponyms
C. Acronyms
D. Conversion
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12. New words are formed that are similar in some way to existing words by a quite different process known simply as.
A. Derivation
B. Infix
C. Circumfix
D. Analogy
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13. The higher-level term in hyponymy(e.g. flower – daffodils) is.
A. Source
B. Sound loss
C. Semantic role
D. Superordinate
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14. The soft area at the back of the root of the mouth also called the “soft palate” and.
A. Velar
B. Uvular
C. Velum
D. Turn
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15. A part of the brain that controls muscle movement is called.
A. Nasal
B. Motor cortex
C. Natural class
D. Oralism
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16. An articulatory parameter in ASL describing the type of motion used in formingsign is.
A. Movement
B. Pitch
C. Pharynx
D. Larynx
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18. A syllable that ends with a vowel and has no coda is.
A. Phonology
B. Polysemy
C. Open syllable
D. Close syllable
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19. The form of old English in use before.
A. 1500
B. 1600
C. 1300
D. 1100
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20. A sound produced in the pharynx is called.
A. Pharyngeal
B. Polysemy
C. Person deixis
D. Palatal
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21. The idea that early human speech developed from the instinctive sounds people make in emotional circumstances, this theory is known as:
A. Auditory system
B. Pooh_Pooh
C. Bow_wow
D. Origins of speech
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22. The study of what speaker means or “speaker meaning” and how more is communicated than is said is termed as:
A. Preposition
B. Postvocalic
C. Pragmatic
D. Rebus principle
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23. What is the vowel in a syllable termed as?
A. Noun
B. Nucleus
C. Number
D. Objects
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24. A consonant produced by raising the tongue to the palate is called.
A. Alveo-Palatal
B. Rebus principle
C. Schema
D. Schwa
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25. A conventional knowledge structure in memory for the series of actions involved in events such as “Going to the dentist” is termed as.
A. Rhyme
B. Register
C. Script
D. Reflexivity
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25. The process of repeating all or parts of a form is.
A. Pragmatic Makers
B. Reduplication
C. Pidgin
D. Physical context
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27. Basic elements such as “human included as plus (+ human) or minus ( -human) used in analysis of the components of word meaning.
A. Semantic features
B. Signed English
C. Social dialect
D. Slang
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28. A mid central vowel often used in an unstressed syllable is called.
A. Schwa
B. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
C. Right-ear advantage
D. Script
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29. Using Words such as here or there as a way of “pointing” to a location with language.
A. Speech community
B. Suffix
C. Spatial deixis
D. Subject
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30.The ability to use language to organize effective message and to overcome potential communication is called.
A. Phrase
B. Semantic role
C. Strategic competence
D. Stem
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31. A physically produced speech sound, representing ane version of a phoneme is
A. Phone
B. Overprestige
C. Palate
D. Orthography
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32. A sound produced in the pharynx is called
A. Pharyngeal
B. Polysemy
C. Person deixis
D. Palatal
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33. Post-creole continuum the range of varieties that evolves in communities where a creole is spoken usually result of
A. Positive transfer
B. Negative transfer
C. Rebus principle
D. Decreolization
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34. The study of speaker meaning and how more is communicated than is said
A. Preposition
B. Postvocalic
C. Pragmatic
D. Rebus principle
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35. The language produced by an acquirer / learner, in contrast to input
A. Output
B. Countable
C. None-countable
D. Syllable
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36. In L1 acquisition, using a word to refer to more objects than is usual in the language is
A. Over prestige
B. Orthography
C. Overextension
D. Orientation
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37. A method designed to teach deaf students to speak and read lips rather than use sign language
A. Orientation
B. Oralism
C. Articulatory parameter
D. Polysemy
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38. The vowel in a syllable is
A. Noun
B. Nucleus
C. Number
D. Objects
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39. The study of the relationship between language and the brain is
A. Neologism
B. Person deixis
C. Negotiated
D. Neurolinguistics
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40. The form of old English in use before
A. 1500
B. 1600
C. 1300
D. 1100
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41. The assumption in conversation that you will “not say that which you believe to be false or for which you lack adequate evidence is
A. Description
B. Primary sign
C. Prefix
D. Quality maxim
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42. The study of relationship between language and society is called
A. Speech act
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Source
D. Speech accommodation
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43. Using activities involving information exchanges and problem solving as a way of developing ability in language
A. Task based learning
B. Tautology
C. Tense
D. Temporal deixis
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44. A property of language whereby linguistic forms have two simultaneous levels of sound production and meaning, is called:
A. Duality
B. Babbling
C. Gender
D. Fricative
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45. A syllable that ends with a vowel and has no coda is
A. Phonology
B. Polysemy
C. Open syllable
D. Close syllable
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46. Pronunciation of a sound with air flowing through the nose, typically before a nasal consonant is
A. Vocal sound
B. Neologism
C. Interdental
D. Nasalization
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47. A semantic change in which a word is used with a less general meaning is
A. Broad
B. Input
C. Narrowing
D. Out put
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48. An articulatory parameter in ASL describing the type of motion used in forming sign is
A. Movement
B. Pitch
C. Pharynx
D. Larynx
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49. A part of the brain that controls muscle movement is called
A. Nasal
B. Motor cortex
C. Natural class
D. Oralism
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50. The soft area at the back of the root of the mouth also called the “soft palate” and
A. Velar
B. Uvular
C. Velum
D. Turn
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