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____________________are gliding sounds during the articulation of which, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another ?
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A. Diphthongs
B. Triphthongs
C. Semi__vowels
D. Minimal pairs
________are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate?
A. Post__alveolar
B. Palate__alveolar
C. Palatal
D. Velar
____________articulated by the tip and the blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge with raising of the front of the tongue towards the palate ?
A. Post__alveolar
B. Palate__alveolar
C. Palatal
D. Velar
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
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