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The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?
A. Complementary distribution
B. Contrastive distribution
C. Non__complementary distribution
D. None of the abovE.
A syllabic division is marked with______________?
A. A slash
B. An arrow mark
C. A hyphen
D. A vertical bar
______________________is a processes of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?
A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Backformation
Which among the following pairs are Velar plosives ?
A. /p/ & /b/
B. /m/ & /v/
C. /t/ &/d/
D. /k/ & /g/
The present__tense form of the verb ‘read’ and its past__tense which is pronounced as ‘red’ is an example of _____________?
A. Allophones
B. Homophones
C. Homographs
D. Homonyms
The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________?
A. Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky
B. Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller
C. Max__Muller & Herman Gundert
D. Edward Sapir & Ferdinand de Saussure
Which among the following is an exception to the property of arbitrariness of language ?
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Homophones
C. Homonyms
D. Portmanteau
Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics_______________?
A. To study the nature of language
B. To establish a theory of language
C. To propound stories of the origin of language
D. To describe a language and all languages
Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in polite requests________________?
A. The falling
B. The rising
C. The fall__rise
D. None of the above
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