UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

61. When ........... is used to conceal the activities of a people such as criminals, it may be called argot.

Correct Answer: C. slang

62. Which of the following tools is most frequently used in computational linguistics to gather huge data from the 'web' for creating big linguistic corpora for natural language processing?

Correct Answer: A. Webcrawler

63. Which among the following are used quite frequently in the language of advertisements?

Correct Answer: C. Adjectives

64. "It is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die"

In the given verse, the word 'sunly' is an example of:

Correct Answer: C. neologism

65. A change in the meaning of a word so that it comes to include additional senses which were not originally present but which are closely associated with the word's original meaning, is referred to by:

Correct Answer: B. metonymy

66. The uniformity and rapidity of first language acquisition is explained by Chomsky's postulate of a biologically endowed language faculty as it is considered to determine one of the following:

Correct Answer: D. the course of acquisition

67. Match List-I with List-II:

Correct Answer: D.

68. Which of the following is NOT true about pragmatics?

Correct Answer: D. It deals with the conventional meaning conveyed by use of words, phrases and sentences of a language

69. Which of the following is a cover term for devices which allow. speakers to express varying degrees of commitment to, or belief, in a proposition?

Correct Answer: C. Modality

70. Implosives are made with:

Correct Answer: B. ingressive glottalic airstream