Language and Linguistics MCQs with Answers

1. ___ refers to significant changes in pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?

2. Words which represent the sounds of their referents are called?

3. The classification of vowels into half-high vowels and half-low vowels is based on?

4. _____ is a process of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?

5. The classification of vowels into tense vowels and lax vowels is based on?

6. Words with more than three syllables are called ___ words?

7. Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language?

8. ___is a process of word formation wherein one or more syllables are removed from existing long words?

9. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

10. ____ are also called secondary phonemes?

11. The form ‘dog’ is a __ morpheme?

12. ___ is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined?

13. A person who has the ability to use only one language is called?

14. The classification of vowels into round vowels and unrounded vowels is based on?

15. On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into ___?

16. ___ is the accent on certain words within the a sentence?

17. In its general sense, it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called?

18. ___ is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction?

19. According to the position of lips, vowels can be divided into?

20. According to the part of the tongue that is raised, vowels can be classified into ___?

21. Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics?

22. The classification of vowels into front vowels and back vowels is based on ___?

23. Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used to indicate that the speaker implies things which are not explicitly expressed _____?

24. Which among the following dimensions can the vowels in English be classified?

25. According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into?

26. The shortened forms like ‘photo’ for a photograph is an instance of?

27. The word ‘examination’ is a ___ word?

28. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in polite requests?

29. There are____ vowel sounds in English IPA?

30. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species?

31. Stress is used for the sake of?

32. A minimal meaningful unit in the grammatical system of a language is called

33. ____ is the degree of force with which a sound of syllable is uttered?

34. Morpheme alternates are called?

35. The final /n/ in the words ‘sudden’ and ‘mutton’ are?

36. In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means?

37. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

38. The older term used to designate the study of languages is called?

39. The ‘ing’ in sleeping is an example of?

40. The IPA came into existence in the year__________?