UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

51. Machine translation in computational linguistics is metaphorically crowned with a sarcastic remark as language on one side, garbage another side, because:

Correct Answer: B. machine translation mainly targets wordto-word replacement

52. The observation that /p/, /t/, /k/ in Latin correspond to /f/, /0/, /x/ in the Germanic languages is referred to as:

Correct Answer: D. Grimm's law

53. In a disability affecting reading and writing, words may be confused with totally unrelated words, even those of very different appearance, which are somehow similar in sound, meaning or grammatical class. Which one of the following refers to this?

Correct Answer: D. Deep dyslexia

54. Assertion (I): Sporadic sound changes affect only one or a few words, and do not apply generally throughout the language.

Assertion (II) : We can predict which words in a language a sporadic change will affect.
Select the correct option from the following:

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

55. An implicational universal will claim that if a language has SVO basic word order, then it has preposition; if we symbolize VSO as 'q' and preposition as 'p', which of the following is not attested?

Correct Answer: B. 'p''not q'

56. Match List-I with List-II:

Correct Answer: B.

57. A language system shared by a community of speakers refers to:

Correct Answer: B. langue

58. Research on language of ads was initiated by:

Correct Answer: B. Geoffrey Leech

59. The term 'concatenation' in morphology refers to:

Correct Answer: C. separating or linking the affixes of words

60. The change, which involves the range of meanings being decreased so that a word can be used appropriately only in fewer contexts than it could before the change, is called:

Correct Answer: C. semantic narrowing