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Words such as ‘black__leg’ and ‘flash__light’ are instances of ____________?
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A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Backformation
The term ______________is used to designate words which are spelt differently but pronounced alike and which are different in meaning ?
A. Allophones
B. Homophones
C. Homographs
D. Homonyms
The final /n/ in the words ‘sudden’ and ‘mutton’ are __________________?
A. Syllabic consonants
B. Sibilants
C. Suffixes
D. None of the above
The final /m/ in the word ‘Prism’ is an instance of ____________?
A. Syllabic consonants
B. Sibilants
C. Suffixes
D. None of the above
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________________?
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
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