Linguistics MCQs by Sajjad Haider (Part3)
1. The inability to produce or comprehend the speech because of damage to certain parts of brain is called a. Anaphora b. Aphasia
c. Cataphora d. Diexes 2. When the baby is three month old, they can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /i/ and /u/ this stage stage is known as a. Cooing
b. Babbling c. Holophrastic d. Telegraphic 3. By the six month, a baby can produce nasal and fricative sounds. This stage is called e. Cooing f. Babbling
g. Holophrastic h. Telegraphic 4. What is difference between acquisition of a language and learning of a language? a. Learning is natural while acquisition is conscious way of getting language b. Acquisition Acquisition is natural and learning is conscious effort to get language
c. Acquisition focuses on grammar while learning not d. None 5. Which one is a traditional method of learning a language? a. GTM
b. Audio lingual c. Silent d. Drill method 6. When you mix L1 and L2 and make another language is called a. Interlanguage Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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b. Forelangue c. Post language d. Coding 7. While speaking one language if we shift to another language it is called a. Code Mixing b. Code Switching
c. Coding d. None 8. In conversation, if we use the words of two languages it is called e. Code Mixing
f. Code Switching g. Coding h. None 9. English is derived from which of the following major language a. Latin b. Greek c. German
d. French 10.A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group is called a. Accent b. Dialect
c. Bilingualism d. Pidgin 11.Dialect is peculiar to vocabulary while accent is peculiar to _______ of a specific group of people a. Grammar b. Spelling c. Pronunciation
d. Tenses 12.A variety of language developed for some practical purpose among groups of people who don’t know each other languages is called Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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a. Pidgin
b. Creole c. Dialect d. Accent 13.When a language developed for some practical purpose goes beyond that purpose and becomes the first language of social community, it is called e. Pidgin f. Creole
g. Dialect h. Accent 14.The personal dialect of each individual speaker of a language is called a. Register b. Jargon c. Diglossia d. Idiolect
15.Variations in a language according to use in specific situations is called e. Register
f. Jargon g. Diglossia h. Idiolect 16.Technical vocabulary associated with a specific field or group is called i. Register j. Jargon
k. Diglossia l. Idiolect 17.When we speak two varieties of one language in a society, one is formal and other is informal, it is called m. Register n. Jargon o. Diglossia
p. Idiolect 18.The study of language in relation to brain is called Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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a. Sociolinguistics b. Psycholinguistics c. Neurolinguistics
d. Applied linguistics 19.The study of language in relation to society is called e. Sociolinguistics
f. Psycholinguistics g. Neurolinguistics h. Applied linguistics 20.Scientific study of production, transmission, reception of speech sounds is called a. Phonetics
b. Linguistics c. Phonology d. Anthropology 21.According to Chomsky, the native speakers knowledge of his language, the system of rules he has mastered, his ability to produce an d understand a vast number of new sentences is a. Competence
b. Performance c. Both none d. None 22.Who gave the concept of competence and performance? a. Chomsky
b. Sapir c. D e Saussure d. Watson 23.The concept of language and parole is given by e. Chomsky f. Sapir g. D e Saussure
h. Watson Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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24.The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is called a. Langue
b. Parole c. Performance d. None 25.The set of all utterances that have actually been produced in the language is called e.
Langue
f. Parole
g. Competence h. None 26.The major names related to the theory of Behaviorism are a. Chomsky and De Saussure b. Watson and De Saussure c. Fried and Chomsky d. Skinner and Watson
27.“Big” and “small” are the examples of________ antonyms a. Gradable
b. Non-Gradable c. Both d. None 28.According to_____________ we perceive the world as our language leads us to perceive it. a. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
b. Behaviorism c. Performance and competence d. Lange and parole 29.The forms of verb ‘to be” (is, are, am , was, were) are technically known as a. Anaphora b. Aphasia c. Copula
d. Cataphora Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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30. The originator of theory of Structuralism is a. De Saussure
b. Chomsky c. Skinner d. Watson 31.“Language may be defined as the expression of thought by the means of speech sounds”. Who defines language in these words?
a. Chomsky b. Skinner c. Henry Sweet
d. De Saussure 32.The study of language ignoring its history is called a. Diachronic study b. Synchronic study
c. Both d. None 33.The study of language through different periods of its history is called a. Historical linguistics b. Diachronic linguistics c. Synchronic linguistics d. A and B
34.A flood of French words came in to English in its___________ a. Old period b. Middle period
c. Modern period d. All 35.English is considered as ‘ lingua franca’ what does it means? a. Easy language b. Language of communication
c. Tough language d. Old language 36.Omission of a word or more from a sentence is called Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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a. Elision b. Ellipsis
c. Assimilation d. Analogy 37.The study and analysis of text in regard to their linguistic and literary style is called a. Sociolinguistics b. Stylistics
c. Psycholinguistics d. Historical linguistics 38.If a poet writes ‘don’t’ instead of “do not” in their poem, they are applying a. Syntactical Deviation b. Morphological Deviation c. Graphical Deviation
d. Grammatical Deviation 39.Which of the following links literary criticism to linguistics e. Sociolinguistics f. Stylistics
g. Psycholinguistics h. Historical linguistics 40.Which one of the following accents is considered a standard accent of British English for non native speakers? a. Irish Accent b. Scottish Accent c. Received Pronunciation
d. Yorkshire Accent 41.The information given about the Subject in a sentence is called a. Infinitive b. Gerund c. Participle d. Predicate
42.This, That, These, and Those are Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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a. Reflexive Pronouns b. Personal Pronouns c. Demonstrative Pronouns
d. Relative Pronouns 43.Painting, Smoking, Fishing are the examples of e. Infinitive f. Gerund
g. Participle h. Predicate 44.Class, Team, Committee are the examples of a. Proper Noun b. Material Noun c. Collective Noun
d. Concrete Noun 45.Ahmad, sit down. ‘Ahmad’ in this sentence is in a. Accusative case b. Genitive case c. Dative case d. Vocative case
46.If a noun is the indirect object of the verb it will be in e. Accusative case f. Genitive case g. Dative case
h. Vocative case 47.There are ____________ basic skills of a language a. 2 b. 4
c. 5 d. 6 48.The productive skills are a. Listening and reading b. Speaking and writing Sajjad Haider SSE English, Head Teacher GES MC Eid Gah Gojra Cell# 03138962618 03215261899
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c. Listening and writing d. Speaking and listening 49.The entity to which anaphora is referred is called a. Inference b. Co-text c. Antecedent
d. Context 50.The concept of LAD was given by a. Chomsky
b. Skinner c. De Saussure d. G.B. Watson
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