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21 The word ‘examination’ is a ____________word?
A Monosyllabic
B Disyllabic
C Try syllabic
D Polysyllabic

Answer: Polysyllabic
22 The /k/ in ‘kill’ and ‘skill’ are ________________?
A Allophones
B Allomorphs
C Morpheme variants
D Minimal pairs

Answer: Allophones
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23 The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?
A Allophones
B Allomorphs
C Morpheme variants
D Minimal pairs

Answer: Allophones
24 Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
A To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language
B To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences
C To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language
D All the above

Answer: All the above
25 The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
A Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures”
B Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax”
C Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language”
D Both “a’ & “b”

Answer: Both “a’ & “b”
26 The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________?
A Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky
B Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller
C Max__Muller & Herman Gundert
D Edward Sapir & Ferdinand de Saussure

Answer: Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky
27 __________is a method of word formation whereby on or more syllables are removed from longer words ?
A Portmanteau
B Onomatopoeia
C Clipping
D Metanalysis

Answer: Clipping
28 The – s in ‘she sings well’ is ____________?
A An adjective forming morpheme
B Plural morpheme
C Possessive morpheme
D Morpheme signaling third person singular

Answer: Morpheme signaling third person singular
29 The –or in actor is_________________?
A An adjective forming morpheme
B Plural morpheme
C Possessive morpheme
D Noun forming morpheme

Answer: Noun forming morpheme
30 The –s in ‘john’s’ is __________?
A An adjective forming morpheme
B Plural morpheme
C Possessive morpheme
D Past morpheme

Answer: Plural morpheme
31 The –ish in the word ‘childish’ is ______________?
A An adjective forming morpheme
B Plural morpheme
C Possessive morpheme
D Past morpheme

Answer: An adjective forming morpheme
32 The final consonants /s/, /z/ and /iz/ in the words ‘cats’, ‘dogs’ and ‘boxes’ are instances of ______________?
A Allophones
B Allomorphs
C Minimal pairs
D None of the above

Answer: Allophones
33 The form ‘dog’ is a __________morphemE?
A A free morpheme
B Free variation
C Bound morpheme
D None of these

Answer: A free morpheme
34 A minimal meaningful unit in the grammatical system of a language is called__________?
A Syllable
B Phoneme
C Morpheme
D Allomorph

Answer: Morpheme
35 /m/ is a ______________consonant?
A Bilabial
B Bilabial__nasal
C Velar
D Glottal

Answer: Bilabial__nasal
36 How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?
A Only one
B Two
C Innumerable
D None of the above

Answer: Two
37 The term________________refers to omissions of certain sounds, syllables or even words in continuous speech?
A Alliteration
B Assonance
C Elision
D None of the above

Answer: Elision
38 How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
A Only one
B Two
C Three
D Four

Answer: Two
39 ______________is the degree of force with which a sound of syllable is uttered ?
A Stress
B Pitch
C Intonation
D Juncture

Answer: Stress
40 ________________are also called secondary phonemes?
A Suprasegmentals
B Morphemes
C Allomorphs
D Allophones

Answer: Suprasegmentals
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