UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

21. Match List-I with List-II:

List-IList-II
(a) Grammatical competence(i) refers to interpretation of individual message elements in terms of their interconnectedness and how meaning is represented in relation to the entire text
(b) Socio-linguistic competence(ii) refers to coping strategies that communicators employ to initiate, terminate, maintain, repair, and redirect communication
(c) Discourse competence(iii) refers to an understanding of social context in which communication takes place, including role relationships, the shared information of the participants, and the common purpose of their interaction
(d) Strategic competence(iv) refers to Chomskyan linguistic competence and is the domain of grammatical and lexical capacity

Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: A.

22. The process of causativization in linguistics increases the valency of a verb, allowing the valency to take fresh NP with a new agentive role as an argument. Such process can be expressed:

(a) morphologically
(b) lexically
(c) periphrastically
(d) grammatically
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: B. Only (a), (b) and (c) are correct

23. Assertion (I) : A sound wave is a travelling pressure fluctuation that disturbs the molecules in the air.

Assertion (II) : The detailed analysis of this molecular movement constitutes articulatory phonetics.
Choose the correct option from the following:

Correct Answer: D. (I) is true and (II) is false

24. Assertion (I): Lexical rules may refer to morphological labels and they cannot have exceptions and also cannot apply across word boundaries.

Assertion (II) : Post-lexical rules cannot refer to morphological labels, and these may have exceptions and also may apply across word boundaries.
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: D. Both (I) and (II) are false

25. Assertion (I) : A variety of language consists of a set of linguistic items with similar social distribution.

Assertion (II) : The definition given above does not, for example, consider London English and English of football commentaries as varieties.
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: A. (I) is true and (II) is false

26. Match List-I with List-II:

List-IList-II
(a) Infixation(i) An affix that represents different grammatical elements
(b) Portmanteau(ii) An affix that is inserted into a root item itself
(c) Suppletion(iii) An affix which is interposed after root
(d) Stem-forming(iv) Allomorphic variant of a morpheme which are phonetically unrelated

Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: A.

27. The ........ states that 'unless there is evidence to the contrary, the hearer is presumed capable of determining the meaning and the referents of the expression in the context of utterance'.

Correct Answer: A. linguistic presumption

28. Assertion (I) : Competence refers to the system of rules which the speakers of a language have mastered so that they are able to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences.

Assertion (II) : It is an important tenet of behaviourism.
Choose the correct answer from the following:

Correct Answer: C. (I) is true and (II) is false

29. In language typology, a statement that all languages have oral vowels makes no reference to any other items that must or must not be present in the language exemplifies the universals as:

Correct Answer: B. non-implicational

30. The syntactic orientation in minimalist program argues that instead of single projection, the 'CP' should function as a series of projections and they may be:

(a) force P
(b) topic P
(c) focus P
(d) fint P (finiteness)
Select the correct option:

Correct Answer: C. All are correct