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How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?
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A. Only one
B. Two
C. Innumerable
D. None of the above
Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?
A. Dental
B. Bilabial
C. Labio__dental
D. Alveolar
______________are sounds articulated in the glottis ?
A. Glottal
B. Velar
C. Palatal
D. None of the above
______________refers to an individual’s equal and native command of two or more languages?
A. Bilingualism
B. Poly__glotism
C. Multilingualism
D. None of the above
______________________is a processes of word formation wherein one or more syllables are removed from an existing long words?
A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Clipping.
Words such as ‘phone’ and ‘photo’ are instances of ____________?
A. Compounding
B. Portmanteau
C. Derivation
D. Clipping.
The older term used to designate the study of languages is____________?
A. Philology
B. Haplology
C. Phonology
D. Semiology
Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?
A. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language
B. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences
C. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language
D. All the above.
Who introduced in linguistics the concept of Competence and Performance ?
A. Charles Sanders Pierce
B. Ferdinand de Saussure
C. Noam Chomsky
D. Edward Sapir
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