MCQ Bank
According to approach of grammar, a sentence is considered grammatical if a native speaker produces that in speaking.
- A) descriptive
- B)
- C)
- D)
We do not have the ability to create complex discourse interpretations of fragmentary linguistic messages.
- A) Incorrect
- B) Correct
- C)
- D)
In English morphology, fast-food comes under the heading of compounding and comes under the heading of blending. Smaze smog smurk all of the given
- A) N/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
A group of different morphs, all version of one are called allomorphs.
- A) morpheme
- 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 English, a phrase consists of a preposition and a noun phrase.
- A) prepositional
- 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
Sound waves can be described in terms of properties such as cycle, period, frequency, and amplitude.
- A) physical
- 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
The element of reduction that is noticeable in blending is even more apparent in the process described as .
- A) clipping
- 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 mentalistic approach by Piadget states that all languages must be by the child.
- A) learnt
- 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
The intra-disciplinary branch linguistics entitled linguistics is mainly interested in general patterns that shape each and every language, both in their current structure and in their historical developments.
- A) descriptive
- 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
A phoneme is a basic unit of phonology. It is the unit which causes a change in meaning.
- A) smallest
- B)
- C)
- D)
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
Segmental phonology is not interested in the production, the physical properties, or the perception of these sounds, but in the and possible combinations of sounds within the sound system.
- A) function
- B)
- C)
- D)
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