Search
.Management Sciences
Category: Language and Linguistics
Who defined language as “a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols” ?
0
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Edward Sapir
D. None of the above
According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into __________?
A. Round vowels & unrounded vowels
B. Front vowels & back vowels
C. High vowels & low vowels
D. Tense vowels &lax vowels
A person who can use more than two languages_______________?
A. Multilingual
B. Poly__lingual
C. Bilingual
D. Poly__langual
Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called________ ?
A. Dental
B. Bilabial
C. Labio__dental
D. Alveolar
________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?
A. Intonation
B. Stress
C. Pitch
D. JuncturE
Which among the following are bilabial plosive sounds in English?
A. /p/ & /b/
B. /m/ & /v/
C. /t/ &/d/
D. /k/ & /g/
The initial sound in ‘chair’ and ‘jam’ are examples for__________?
A. Plosives
B. Affricates
C. fricatives
D. Trill
The term________________refers to omissions of certain sounds, syllables or even words in continuous speech?
A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Elision
D. None of the above
The classification of vowels into front vowels and back vowels is based on ________________ ?
A. The position of the lips
B. The part of the tongue that is raised
C. The height to which the tongue is raised
D. All the abovE.
Recent Comments