University of Hyderabad (UoH) 2011 M.Phil Entrance for M Phil (Applied linguistic) - Question Paper
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UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS - JUNE 2011 M.Phil, APPLIED LINGUISTICS
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1. The Sound Patterns of English was first published in_
A. 1970
B. 1968
C. 1971
D. 1969
2. Syntactic Structures was first published in
A. 1969
B. 1968
C. 1957
D. 1965
3. Lectures on Government and Binding was first published in
A. 1981
B. 1985
C. 1961
D. 1979
4. Remarks on Nominalization was published in
A. 1970
B. 1975
C. 1972
D. 1969
5. The Author of Generative Morphology (1984) is
A. Mark Baker
B. Mark Aronoff
C. Sergio Scalise
D. Laurie Bauer
6. India as a Sociolinguistic Area (1972) is written by
A. L. M. Khubchandani
B. R. K. Agnihotri
C. P. B. Pandit
D. H. R. Dua
7. The Case for Case is written by
A. J.D. McCawley
B. C. J. Fillmore
C. N. Chomsky
D. R. Lakoff
8. India as a Linguistic Area is written by
A. M. Shapiro
B. M. B. Emeneau
C. G. A. Grierson
D. Bh. Krishnamurti
9. One of the following is considered to be associated with the definition of phoneme
A. Prague school;
B. London school;
C. Neogrammarians;
D. Generative enterprise
10. One of the following is credited to have integrated the work on language acquisition and language los by aphasia in linguistic theor)
A. Roman Jakobson;
B. Nikolay Sergeycvich 1 rubetzkoy;
C. Morris Halle;
D. Paul Kiparsky
11. Segments are defined as_features
A. bundles of;
B. distinctive;
C. binary;
D. phonetic
12. Distinctive Features have a standard phonetic interpretation, in terms of__.
A. articulatory and/or acoustic properties.
B. articulatory and perceptual properties
C. perceptual and acoustic properties
D. acoustic properties alone
13. A B / C_Disa_
A. A context-free rule
B. A context-sensitive rule
C. A rewrite rule
D. A phonetic law
14. In Generative phonology A>B/C_D does not involve whole_,but_.
A. segments, features
B. phonemes, segments
C. phonemes, allophones
D. segments, sounds
15. Conventional generative phonology believes in
A. Obsolute slicing hypothesis
B. hierarchical nature of phonological units
C. autosegmental nature of phonological units
D. non-linear nature of phonological units
16. State which of the following statements is correct:
is determined by its head, is determined by its non-head.; is determined neither by the head
A. The grammatical category of a morphologically complex word
C. The grammatical category of a morphologically complcx word nor the non-head.;
D. Morphologically complex words are not headed at all.;
17. The Lexical Phonology Morphology Model is proposed by:
A. Kiparsky and Mohanan
B. Aronoff
C. Chomsky
D. Peter Matthews
18. The extension of X-bar Syntax to morphology in the form of W(ord) syntax is proposed by:
A. Selkirk
B. Scalise C Seigel D Aronoff
19 The main proponents of the theory of Distributed Morphology are:
A Halle and Mohanan;
B Aronoff and Mohanan;
C Morris Halle and Alec Marantz;
D Chomsky and Halle
20 The derivational process whereby the lexical category of a word changes without changing its phonological shape is:
A Blending;
B Conversion;
C Clipping;
D None of the above
21 The term_is used to refer to the set of all the inflected forms of a lexeme.
A Syntagm
B Paradigm
C Derivation
D Inflection
22. In Remarks on Nominalization, Chomsky argues that derived nouns should be treated as:
A. derived from a base;
B independent lexemes;
C syntactic phrases;
D sentences;
23 One of the following is not a term used for economy principles in Minimalist Program.
A. Procrastinate.
B. Shortest move.
C. Wh-movement.
D. Greed.
24. Principle B of the Binding Theory deals with
A. Trace
B. Pronominals
C. DP
D C-command
25. a L-marks p iff:
A. p is 0-marked by a lexical head
B. a which C-commands p is a lexical head
C. P belongs to a lexical category
D. P is not 6-marked by a functional head
26. In the sentence I wanted Karan to give the book to his friend, Karan to give ihe book to his friend is:
A. An adverbial clause.
B. An infinitival clause.
C. A complement clause.
D. A predicative clause
27. Identify the wrong statement.
A. PRO is universal.
B. 1NFL is a functional category.
C. pro occurs only in pro-drop languages.
D. COMP is an empty category.
28. The Case Filter is stated thus:
A. *NP if NP has semantic content and has no Case;
B. *NP if NP has phonetic content and has no Case.
C. *NP if NP has no phonetic content and has no Case;
D. *NP if NP has no phonetic content and has Case;
29. As a principle of phrase structure, Kaynes Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) d A. is a linear ordering of T can be simplified/restated as:
A. A terminal node a precedes another terminal node p, if and only if a symmetrically c-commands p.
B. A terminal node a precedes another terminal node P, if and only if a asymmetrically c-commands p.
C. A terminal node a precedes another terminal node p, if and only if a asymmetrically m- commands p.
D. A terminal node a precedes another terminal node p, if and only if a asymmetrically both c-commands and m-commands p.
30. Buyer and seller are examples of
A. Conversive antonymy.
B. Rcversive antonymy.
C. Binary antonymy.
D. Complementary antonymy.
31. Polysemy of a given word would involve multiple
A. unrelated meaning
B. related meaning
C. equivalent meaning
D. divergent meaning
32. Punch which can mean both drink and a blow of fist are instances of
A. hyponymy
B. mcronymy
C. homonymy
D. metonymy.
33. The sentence All elephants are animals is
A. analytic
B. conditional
C. synthetic
D. none of the above
34. The theory of Conversational Implicature was discusscd by
A. Paul Grice
B. Stephen C. Levinson
C. John R. Searle
D. John L. Austin and John R. Searle
35. I boiled an egg
A. Presupposes
I cooked an egg
B. Entails
C. Paraphrases
D. Contradicts
36. Greenbergs Universal -6 states that:
A. Languages with dominant VSO order are always prepositional
B. In languages with dominant order VSO, an inflccted auxiliary always precedes the main verb.
C. In languages with dominant order SOV, an inflected auxiliary always follows the main verb.
D. All languages with dominant VSO order have SVO as an alternative or as the only alternative basic Order
37. The statement if a language has property 1\ then it has property Q would be a definition of:
A. Absolute universals
B. Implicational universals
C. Non-implicational universals
D. Unidirectional universals
38. It is not true that:
A. All Tibeto-Burman languages do not have tones.
B. All Dravidian languages are found only in South India.
C. In some Auslro-Asiatic languages, verbs and adjcctives are one and the same.
D. All Indo-Aryan languages have a verb-final word order.
39. Sinhalese belongs to the group of
A. Indo-Aryan languages
B. Dravidian languages.
C. Language Isolates.
D. Endangered languages.
40. The Jarawara language is spoken in
A. Andaman Islands.
B. Amazonas.
C. Jharkhand
D. Nigeria.
41. _does not have Dative subjects.
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Khasi |
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Telugu |
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Hindi |
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Meiteilon |
42. A Lingua Franca is a
A. Regional Language
B. National Language
C. Link Language
D. Trade Language
43. The use of two languages/varieties of language in two different domains is called
A. Polyglot
B. Diglossia
C. Biglossia
D. None of the above
44. The phenomenon such that an individual has more than one connection in a social network is known as
A. Density
B. Strong social network
C. Weak social network
D. Multiplexity
45. When speakers of a language are spread over different parts of the world, they form a
A. Speech community
B. Language community
C. Diaspora
D. Regional community
46. Rhenish fan is an example of
A. A rclic area
B. A transitional area
C. A centre of prestige
D. A major dialect area
\1. A change like a > b is called as_.
A. A rule
B. A phonetic law
C. phonetic process
D. a merger
8. Modelling of language change over time is_
A. Glottochronology;
B. Historical linguistics;
C. paleontology;
D. paleography;
49. A sound change which is regular brings irregularity but analogy which is essentially irregular brings regularity is often known as_.
A. Sturtcvants paradox;
B. grandfather paradox;
C. barber paradox;
D. drinker paradox;
50. Grimms Law involves_.]
A. a split;
B. a merger;
C. a shift;
D. none of these;
51. Languages which do not have any other genetically related member are usually known as_
A. Unique languages;
B. Isolates;
C. Unitary languages;
D. None of the above.
52. Proto-Indo-European has been reconstructed from its_
A. descendants;
B. sisters;
C. daughters;
D. parents;
53. Reduplicative babbling requires
A. Doubling of words;
B Doubling of phrases;
C. Doubling of syllables;
D. Doubling of morphemes;
54. Deletion of function words and bound grammatical morphemes during language acquisition marks_
A. jargon;
B. holophrastic speech;
C. telegraphic specch;
D. full competence;
55. A language disorder found among normal children in reading, writing and arithmetic is technically known as
A. dysnomia;
B. hyperlexia;
C. alexia;
D. dyslexia;
lO-l-t'i theory of language acquisition focuses of the care-giver speech
A. Innatist;
56. The
B. Behaviourist;
C. Social Interactional;
D. Modular;
57. Psycholinguists believe that we store representations of words in a dictionary known as
A. Mental lexicon;
B. Mental parsing;
C. Gating;
D. Checklist;
58. The Wernickes and Brocas areas in the brain are located in thj
A. Right hemisphere;
B. Left hemisphere;
C. Occipital lobe;
D. Corpus callosum;
59. Much of research on language production have originated from the study of:
A. Reading;
B. Writing;
C. Speech errors;
D. Corpus studies;
60. Recent advances suggest that important aspects of language, specifically grammar, may be associated with a specific gene known as:
A. Foxlp;
B. Fox2p;
C. Foxp2;
D. Foxl;
61. A morphological analyzer requires_as input
A. Root + formatives
B. Suffixes
C. Wordform
D. Stems
62. A_synthesizes words.
A. POS tagger;
B. Parser;
C. Generator;
D. Analyzer;
is the process of assigning a part of speech to each word in a sentence.
A. Morph analysis;
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B. Parsing;
C. POS Tagging;
D. Tokenization;
64. Indian Scripts are _in nature.
A. syllabic
B. Alphabetic
C. Logographic;
D. logosyllabic;
65. A common encoding scheme for Indian Scripts is known as
A. ASCII;
B. ISCII;
C. ISFOC;
D. Unicode;
66. A morphological generator requires as input _
A. Root + features ;
B. A word;
C. A wordform;
D. A lexeme
67. A Paradigm refers to a set of word forms derived from the same root but with different _endings.
A. derivational;
B. inflectional;
C. Suffixes;
D. Affixes
68 The number of occurrenccs of lexical units in a language are presented in a/an
A. Dictionary of neologisms
B. Dictionary of frequency counts
C. Dictionary of usages
D. Ideographical dictionary
69. Etymology deals with the_.
A. source of a language
B. source of phrases
C.. source of meaning
D. source of a word.
70. Exegetic dictionaries are based on
A. slangs, jargons, argots
B. works of authors
C. technical terms
D. none of the above
71. Grammatical information is usually given along with_.
A. lemma
B. etymology
C. labels
D. a head word
72. The second-language teaching that consisted of the study of grammatical rules, followed by translation from the second language into the first and back again is callcd_.
A. the grammar-translation method
B. the Direct Method
C. the Silent Way
D. content-based instruction method
73. An approach to second or foreign language education that integrates theoretical and empirical foundations for good pedagogy with a focus on tangible learning outcomes especially with regard to what learners are to do with the language is known as the_.
A. Task-based Language Teaching
B. Radical Language Teaching
C. Computer-assisted Language Teaching
D. Content-based Language Teaching
74. A way to increase the efficiency of vocabulary focus in language learning is by making use of specially designed vocabulary lists. The four distinguishing vocabulary levels are:
A. frequency, academic, technical, and borrowed words.
B. high-frequency, academic, technical, and low-frequency words.
C. high and low-frequency, academic, technical, and native words.
D. academic, technical, borrowed and native words
75. In Language teaching, a core idiom is a_unit where the meaning of the parts does not make up
the meaning of the whole.
A. multi-word
B. figurative
C. compositional
D. literal
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