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The final /l/ in the words ‘bottle’, ‘cattle’ and ‘little’ are examples of _____________ ?
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A. Syllabic consonants
B. Sibilants
C. Suffixes
D. None of the above
______________________is a processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined ?
A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Backformation.
The shortened forms like ‘photo’ for photograph is an instance of __________________?
A. Portmanteau
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Clipping
D. Metanalysis
The theory which Is based upon the assumption that language has been formed from the words uttered by groups of persons engaged in joint burdensome labour ?
A. The Yo__He__Ho Theory
B. The Gesture theory
C. The Poo__Pooh theory
D. Ding__Dong theory.
The Musical Theory of the origin of language was advanced by_________________?
A. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
B. Noire
C. Max__Muller
D. Otto Jespersen
Which among the following implies the actual meaningful utterance of the individual speaking or writing a given language ?
A. Language
B. Parole
C. performance
D. Both parole and performance
The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
A. Supra__segmental phonemes
B. Secondary phonemes
C. Prosodic features
D. All the above.
The word ‘examination’ is a ____________word?
A. Monosyllabic
B. Disyllabic
C. Try syllabic
D. Polysyllabic
Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
A. Concord
B. Gerund
C. Phrase structure
D. None of the above
There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?
A. Arbitrariness.
B. Recursiveness
C. Displacement
D. TransferencE.
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