UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2020

Statement I: All the languages that descended from a common ancestor are said to constitute a family of languages.
Statemėnt II: Two or more related languages are sometimes referred to as 'sisters' and languages descended from an earlier language are usually called 'daughter'.
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Statement I: Micro Sociolinguistics investigates how social structure influences the way people talk and how language varieties and patterns of use correlate with social attributes like class, gender, age etc.
Statement II: Macro Sociolinguistics studies what societies do with their languages, i.e., attitudes and attachments that account for the functional distribution of speech forms in society.
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Assertion (A): The Dravidian languages are agglutinating.
Reason (R): There are no prefixes or suffixes,
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Statement I: Areal linguistics has been facing the problem of the number of features necessary to distinguish. between proper "Sprachbund" and simple contact phenomena.
Statement II: The similarities of linguistic area should not be trivial.
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Statement I: A distinct difference between a phrase and a compound word is that a compound word can be without a head, but a phrase can never be without a head.
Statement II: English compound words such as 'ladyfingers' and 'butterfingers' are called exocentric compounds and none of the words in the compound, function as the head of the compound.
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Statement I: Spectrum of a sound wave shows frequencies of the constituent waves on Xaxis and respective amplitudes on Y-axis.
Statement II: Spectrogram is a visual representation of all the three features of constituent waves, namely time, frequency and intensity,
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Statement I: Total loss of communication ability due to injury to certain parts of the brain is referred to as Global Aphasia.
Statement II: Loss of communication ability due to inability to comprehend any linguistic communication is referred to as Broca's Aphasia.
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Statement I: Sign language is a system of communication that includes symbolic language like any other natural, human language.
Statement II: Sign language uses hand shapes and hand movements i.e., visual medium instead of speech (oral-auditory medium).
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Assertion (A): WordNet makes use of relational semantics rather than componential semantics as the instrument of disambiguation.
Reason (R): Expressing meanings as a combination of features which are correct and complete is unattainable due to the world of concepts being a continuum and fuzzy.
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Assertion (A): Persuasive appeals couched in metaphorical language should be used.
Reason (R): Advertisers recognize that much of our conceptualization of experience is metaphorical and a great deal of our thinking is constituted by metaphorical mappings.
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