MCQ Bank
A word with more than three syllables is termed as _______.
- A) monosyllabic
- B) trisyllabic
- C) polysyllabic
- D) disyllabic
How many syllables does the word ‘suprasegmental’ have?
- A) 4
- B) 6
- C) 5
- D) 3
In tonal languages which of the following is an essential component of the pronunciation of a word?
- A) Intensity
- B) Duration
- C) Vowel quality
- D) Pitch
In a syllable, the combination of nucleus and coda is termed as _________.
- A) rhyme
- B) meter
- C) note
- D) rhythm
In interlingual translating model the basic semantic elements of each language can be represented __________to encoded into other languages.
- A) frequently
- B) afferently
- C) abstractly
- D) apparently
The second utterance is always a response to the first in ____________.
- A) adjacency pairs
- B) nominal pairs
- C) sequential pairs
- D) rotational pairs
Which among the following is the term used for compiling collections of texts and using them to probe language use?
- A) psycho linguistics
- B) socio linguistics
- C) corpus linguistics
- D) philosophe linguistics
Among the following fields of linguistics, the features of__________ have been less explored in computational linguistics.
- A) phonetics
- B) pragmatics
- C) morphology
- D) semantics
Any possible change of turn point is called a __________.
- A) tranquility relevance place
- B) transition relevance place
- C) irradiate relevance place
- D) irrational relevance place
In language texts, highlighting and deemphasizing by the writers is called ___________ structure.
- A) silence
- B) avenue
- C) information
- D) glossary
Interlanguage pragmatics focuses on the __________development of second/ foreign languages learners.
- A) semantic
- B) pragmatic
- C) cognitive
- D) phonetic
Listener cues are also called __________ channel cue.
- A) middle
- B) front
- C) down
- D) back
The building of corpora of written language has proceeded more ________ than the compilation of spoken corpora.
- A) conversely
- B) adamantly
- C) quickly
- D) mutually
Greetings exemplify __________sequences, utterances that ease people into a conversation.
- A) conversing
- B) closing
- C) opening
- D) wishing
Micro features in a discourse includes ____________.
- A) turn taking
- B) All of the given options
- C) indirectness
- D) prosodic cues
These types of signals (uh – uh, yeah, mmm) provide feedback to the current speaker that the message in being received; known as __________.
- A) forward-channels
- B) initial-channels
- C) middle-channels
- D) back-channel
Adjacency pairs represent social actions, and not all social actions are _________when they occur as second parts of some pairs.
- A) equal
- B) zealous
- C) biased
- D) tendentious
As an interactive feature of talk, reference entails ____________ meanings.
- A) pragmatic
- B) phonetic
- C) semantic
- D) psychological
Intercultural pragmatics is based on the ___________ approach.
- A) socio-cognitive
- B) None of the given options
- C) philosophe-cognitive
- D) psycho-cognitive
Interlanguage pragmatics is inherently anchored in ___________ contexts.
- A) learning
- B) situational
- C) acquisition
- D) All of the given options