MCQ Bank
The pre-existing natural languages are named as.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
We do not have the ability to create complex discourse interpretations of fragmentary linguistic messages.
- A) Incorrect
- B) Correct
- C)
- D)
Genetically, with the passage of time, the brain develops and larynx.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Your dog is lovely. Your dog is not lovely. The presupposition is you have a dog. This is called__________________ under Negation Test.
- A) constancy
- B) firmness
- C) None of the given options
- D) endurance
In linguistics, chemo communication refers to the fact that animals emit certain from their bodies in order to communicate.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
The basic time of temporal deixis in English language is in the choice of _________________ tense.
- A) noun
- B) reference
- C) verb
- D) pronoun
In linguistics, Chomsky believes that language learning is.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Anaphora can be defined as subsequent_________________ to an already introduced entity.
- A) reference
- B) antecedent
- C) None of the given options
- D) anaphora
Dravidian language family contains.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Language teaching divides discourse into two major categories: _______________.
- A) reading and writing
- B) writing and speaking
- C) speaking and writing
- D) speaking and listening
Animals can only talk about their.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
When we understand the _________________ who communicates more than he says, we are actually undertaking what is known as discourse analysis.
- A) hearer
- B) speaker
- C) listener
- D) All of the given options
The human history begins with the pathway of great apes.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Presupposition concerns inferences related to the use of linguistic expressions but also affected by the________________ in which they are used.
- A) surface meaning
- B) context
- C) meaning
- D) None of the given options
According to Behaviorists, refers to language utterances or words or phrases of which they are composed.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
The deep structure is a/an _________________ level of structural organization in which all the elements determining structural interpretation are represented.
- A) abstract
- B) concrete
- C) All of the given options
- D) numerical
The set of possible expressions in a given language may or may not be infinite, the actual set of all expressions ever uttered is going to be ___________________.
- A) infinite
- B) All of the given options
- C) finite
- D) expressions
One of the properties of generative grammar is that grammar has _______ number of rules but is capable of producing _________ number of sentences.
- A) finite, limited
- B) infinite, finite
- C) infinite, restricted
- D) finite, infinite
The rules that relate the spoken form of sentence to their underlying meaning are called ___________ rules.
- A) transformational
- B) phrase structure
- C) sentence structure
- D) recursive
According to _________ approach of grammar, a sentence is considered grammatical if a native speaker produces that in speaking.
- A) descriptive
- B) Both prescriptive and traditional
- C) prescriptive
- D) traditional