Linguistics MCQs
CORRECT SIGN ©
According to Hinduism, language came from
Sarasvati ©
Brahma
Vishnu
Ishvara
Language might be started by the imitation of sounds which early men and women heard around them. This describes
Ye-heave-ho theory
Bow-wow theory ©
Oral-gesture theory
Divine source The sounds of a person involved in physical effort could be the source of our language describes
Ye-heave-ho theory ©
Bow-wow theory
Oral-gesture theory
Divine source theory
The biological basis of formation and development of human language is called
Glossogentics ©
Biogenetics
Physogenitcs
Morphology
Human beings can talk about their present, past and future. This property of language is called
Duality
Arbitrariness
Displacement ©
Productivity
There is no connection between a linguistic form and its meaning describes
Duality
Arbitrariness ©
Displacement
Productivity
We can utter new and novel words and sentences but animal can’t. It describes which property?
Duality
Arbitrariness
Displacement
Productivity ©
`A little change in the sound can change the meaning describes which property of human language?
Duality
Displacement
Discreetness ©
Cultural Transmission
The general study of characteristics of speech sounds is called
Phonetics ©
Phonology
Articulatory Phonetics
Auditory Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics
The study of movement of speech organs in articulation of speech or the study of how the speech sounds are made is called
Phonetics
Phonology
Articulatory Phonetics ©
Auditory Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics
The study of physical properties of a language is called
Phonetics
Phonology
Articulatory Phonetics
Auditory Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics ©
The study of perceptions of speech sounds is called
Phonetics
Phonology
Articulatory Phonetics
Auditory Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics ©
The study of sounds involving speaker’ s identification and analysis of recorded utterances is called
Forensic phonetics ©
Acoustic Phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics
Auditory Phonetics
When the vocal cords are spread apart and the air from the lungs passes between them unimpeded(without any stoppage) the sound is called
Unvoiced
Voiceless
Both ©
Voiced
When there is some vibration in vocal cord while producing sound, the sound will be
Voiced ©
Unvoiced
Voiceless
None
There are total________ sounds in English Language
42
44 ©
46
48
Total number of vowel and consonant sounds in English respectively
24, 20
20, 24 ©
22,22
The sounds in English language are classified as Bilabials, Dentals, Alveolar etc it is according to their
Place of Articulation ©
Manner of Articulation
Both
None
The sounds which are formed using both upper and lower lips (/m/, /b/,/w/) are called
Bilabials ©
Labiodentals
Dentals
Alveolar
/f/ and /v/ are
Bilabials
Labiodentals ©
Dentals
Alveolar
The sounds formed with tongue tip behind(between) the upper front teeth (ð, θ] are called
Bilabials
Labiodentals
Dentals (interdentals) ©
Alveolar
/t/, /d/, /s/, /n/ ad /z/ are called ________ because they are pronounced with the front part of the tongue on the alveolar ridge.
Bilabials
Labiodentals
Dentals
Alveolar ©
/k/ and /g/ are called
Bilabials
Velars ©
Dentals
Alveolar
There a sound that is produced without the active use of the tongue and the other parts of the mouth. What is it called?
Bilabials
Velar
Glottal ©
Alveolar
IPA stands for
International Phonetic Association(Alphabet ) ©
International Phonetic Authority
International Phonetic Academy
International Phonic Association
The consonants sounds resulting from a blocking effect on air stream is called Nasals
Affricates
Fricatives
Plosives or Stops ©
/p/, /b/, /t/, /d/,/k/ and /g/ are 6
Plosives ©
Nasals
Liquids
Fricatives
The consonants having the air push through the narrow opening are called
Plosives
Nasals
Liquids
Fricatives ©
Find the examples of Affricates
/m/, /n/,/b/
/f/,/v/
/ð/, /θ/
/tʃ/,/dǯ/ ©
/m/, /n/ and /ђ/ are called______________ consonants.
Plosive
Nasal ©
Liquid
Fricative
/w/, /r/and /j/ are called__________ consonants.
Nasal
Gliding
Approximant
Both B and C ©
Find out liquid consonants.
/l/,/r/
/l/,/m/
/l/,/n/
/t,/,/p/
What are the syllabic consonants in the following
/l/,/r/
/l/,/m/
/l/,/n/ ©
/t,/,/p/
In American English if /t/ occurs between vowels, it is pronounced as /d/; for example, writer as rider and metal as medal. Name this term.
Flapping ©
Taping
Stopping
Mashing
The only lateral sound is
/l/ ©
/t/
/b/
/h/
The ___________ sounds are mostly articulated with obstruction in the vocal cart.
Vowel
Consonant ©
Abstract
Diphthongs
The sounds which are pronounced without any obstruction in air passage, and are produced with a free flow of air are called
Vowel ©
Consonant
Abstract
Diphthongs
Mark the number of monothongs and diphthongs respectively.
12, 8 ©
8,12
14.6
14.8
Read the transcription and judge the words (ˈ/flaʊə/, /ɔːtəməbiːl/,/ ˈkriːtʃə/
Flower, Reach, mobile
Flour, mobile. Crèches
Flour, Automobile, Creature ©
Flower, Mobile, Richer
The study of speech patterns is called
Phonetics
Phonology ©
Morphology
Pragmatics
The smallest unit of speech sound is called
Morpheme
Phoneme ©
Lexeme
Allophone
The versions of one phone are called
Morpheme
Phoneme
Lexeme
Allophone ©
A sound pronounced with one puff of air is called ( a sound with one vowel sound)
Vowel
Consonant
Syllable ©
Coda
Syllable consists of onset and rime while rime is further divided into
Onset and nucleus
Onset and coda
Nucleus and onset
Nucleus and coda ©
The consonants after the nucleus are called
Onset
Coda ©
Syllable
The syllables having onset and nucleus but not coda are called
Open syllables ©
Closed syllable
Light syllable
Heavy syllable
The syllables having nucleus and coda but no onset are called
Open syllables
Closed syllable ©
Light syllable
Heavy syllable
There are one or more consonants before or after nucleus which describes
Consonant Cluster ©
Elision
Assimilation
Syllable
When two phonemes occurring in a sequence, and some aspect of one phoneme is taken or copied by other phoneme, this process is called
Consonant Cluster
Elision
Assimilation ©
Syllable
The omission or deletion of some sound from a word is known as
Consonant Cluster
Elision ©
Assimilation
Syllable
Linguistics MCQs (Part 2)
When the name of a company becomes the name of its product, it is called
Coinage ©
Blending
Compounding
When one part of a word is joined with other part of other word, we get a new word. This process is known as
Coinage
Calques
Blending ©
Compounding
When one part of a word is joined with other part of other word, we get a new word. Such type of words in linguistics terminology are called
Acronyms
Portmanteau ©
Palindrome
Slang
A word, phrase or sentence having same sequence of alphabet from left to right and right to left( for example, madam, nurses run) are called
Acronyms
Portmanteau
Palindrome ©
Slang
If a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorten form ( for example; laboratory to lab, gasoline to gas, advertisement to ad) this process will be termed as
Compounding
Clipping ©
Hypocorism
Conversion
If a long word is reduced to single syllable and then “y” or “ie” is added to end to make new words (example handkerchief to hankie, and breakfast to breaky) the process is called
Compounding
Clipping
Hypocorism ©
Conversion
A change in the function of a word, when a noun is used as verb or a verb is used as a noun it is called
Clipping
Hypocorism
Conversion ©
NASA, NATO, UNESCO are the example of
Abbreviations
Acronyms ©
Compounding
Mixing
To form new words by attaching affixes with existing words is called
Abbreviation
Acronym
Conversion
Derivation ©
The study of forms ( words) is called
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology ©
Assimilation
originally, morphology is a
Linguistic term
Literary term
Biological term ©
Mathematical term
A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function or a minimum unit of word is called
Phoneme
Morpheme
Lexeme
Phone
A word or a group of word which has one meaning is called
Phoneme
Morpheme
Lexeme ©
Phone
The morphemes which are independent to give meaning and they can stand by as single words are called
Free morphemes ©
Bound morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Derivational morphemes
The morphemes which are dependent to other words give meaning and they cannot stand by as single words are called
Free morphemes
Bound morphemes ©
Lexical morphemes
Derivational morphemes
All the affixes in English are Free morphemes
Bound morphemes ©
Lexical morphemes
Independent morphemes
The word to which affixes are attached is technically known as
Phoneme
Morpheme
Stem ©
Lexeme
Lexical and functional morphemes are two types of
Free morphemes ©
Bound morphemes
Derivational morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Nouns, verbs and adjectives come under
Lexical morphemes ©
Functional morphemes
Derivational morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Articles, pronouns and prepositions cover
Lexical morphemes
Functional morphemes ©
Derivational morphemes
Inflectional morphemes
Which of type of morphemes is used to indicate the grammatical function of a word
Lexical morphemes
Functional morphemes
Derivational morphemes
Inflectional morphemes ©
There are total__________ inflectional morphemes in English language.
5
6
8 ©
10
The study of rules of a language covers
Grammar ©
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Following two languages are considered Classical languages
Arabic and Greek
Greek and Latin ©
Greek and English
Latin and Dutch
English followed ____________ language for making rules of grammar
Greek
Latin ©
Dutch
Scottish
Which of the following approaches deals with the set of grammar rules and focuses on the teaching of grammar rules?
Descriptive Approach
Prescriptive Approach ©
Generative approach
Mystic approach
Mention the approach which discourages the too much focus on rules of language, according to it, how language is used is important rather than how language should be used.
Descriptive Approach ©
Prescriptive Approach
Generative approach Mystic approach
Syntax is originally taken from a___________ word
Greek ©
Latin
Germen
Russian
The study of order or arrangements of words is called
Grammar
Syntax ©
Semantics
Pragmatics
The study of meaning of forms is called
Grammar
Syntax
Semantics ©
Pragmatics
“The table was listening to the music”. This sentence syntactically is correct, but ___________ wrong.
Semantically ©
Grammatically
Pragmatically
Morphologically
When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another form it is called
Hyponymy ©
Polysemy
Homonymy
Prototypes
Horse is________ of animal
Hyponym ©
Co-hyponym
Homonym
Homophone
When two words have different different spellings have same pronunciations (for example, meet, meat, flour flower) they are called
Homonyms
Homophones
Hyponyms
Metonyms When one word has two or more meanings or two words have two different meanings but same spellings are called. (examples; bank- of river, bank- a financial institution)
Homonyms ©
Homophones
Hyponyms
Metonyms
When one form have different meanings which are all related by extension, the term is named
Hyponymy
Polysemy ©
Homonymy
Prototypes
Words frequently occurring together are termed as ( examples; husband and wife,salt-pepper)
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Collocation ©
polysemy
When a part represents a whole entity it is known as
Synecdoche ©
Metonymy
Collocation
Polysemy
The study of intended speaker meaning is called
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics ©
Grammar
The set of words used in the same phrase or sentence is called linguistics context. It is also known as
Co-text ©
Dixie
Anaphora
Inference
Word s that cannot be interpreted at all without the physical context of the speaker are called
Co-text
Dixies ©
Anaphora
Inference
Any additional information used by the listener to connect what is said to what must be meant is called
Co-text
Dixies
Anaphora
Inference ©
A subsequent reference to an already introduced entity is called
Co-text
Antecedent
Anaphora ©
Inference
Linkage of ideas in a text is called
Cohesion
Coherence ©
Anaphora
Co-text
A conventional knowledge structure which exists in memory is called
Cohesion
Schema ©
Anaphora
Co-text
When we feel extreme difficulty in production of speech which part of our brain is damaged?
Broca’ Area ©
Wernicke’s
Motor cortex
Arcuate fasciculus
Damage in Wernicke’s Area of brain causes difficulty in
Speech production
Speech comprehension ©
Speech listening
Speech memorizing
Which of the following part of the brain controls the articulatry muscles, jaw, tongue and lynx?
Broca’ Area
Wernicke’s area
Motor cortex ©
Arcuate fasciculus
Which of the following parts forms a crucial connection between Brcoa’s area and Wernicke’s area?
Vex Area
Motor cortex
Arcuate fasciculu ©
John’s Area
Language ability is located in _________ of the brain
Right Hemisphere
Left Hemisphere ©
Both
None
Majid Farooq lecturer in English Superior college govt teacher from
Arifwala, Pakistan
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