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The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________________?
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A. Synchronic
B. Diachronic
C. Semiotic
D. Onomatopoeic
Language is never statiC. It goes on changing. This property of language is called______________ ?
A. Dynamic
B. Recursiveness
C. Displacement
D. TransferencE
In transformational Generative Grammar, the ‘Generative’ means______________?
A. ‘to produce’
B. ‘to develop’
C. ‘to predict’
D. All the above
_________ is the process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another ?
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Assimilation
C. Regression
D. Progression
The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of human instinct to imitate sounds _______________?
A. Ding Dong theory
B. The Bow-vow theory
C. The Pooh-pooh theory
D. The Gesture theory
Find the odd one out____________________?
A. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. Edward Sapir
C. Leonard Bloomfield
D. Herman Gundert
______________________is used to designate words pronounced differently though identically?
A. Allophones
B. Homophones
C. Homographs
D. Homonyms
Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used to indicate that the speaker implies things which are not explicitly expressed____________?
A. The falling
B. The rising
C. The fall__rise
D. None of the above
The /d/ in ‘middle’ is an instance of __________________?
A. Lateral plosion
B. Alveolar plosion
C. Nasal plosion
D. Incomplete plosion.
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