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The Musical Theory of the origin of language was advanced by_________________?
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A. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
B. Noire
C. Max__Muller
D. Otto Jespersen
Which among the following implies the actual meaningful utterance of the individual speaking or writing a given language ?
A. Language
B. Parole
C. performance
D. Both parole and performance
The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
A. Supra__segmental phonemes
B. Secondary phonemes
C. Prosodic features
D. All the above.
The word ‘examination’ is a ____________word?
A. Monosyllabic
B. Disyllabic
C. Try syllabic
D. Polysyllabic
Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
A. Concord
B. Gerund
C. Phrase structure
D. None of the above
There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?
A. Arbitrariness.
B. Recursiveness
C. Displacement
D. TransferencE.
Words such as ‘black__leg’ and ‘flash__light’ are instances of ____________?
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
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