UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021

Total Questions: 100

1. Unlike bees and birds, the human beings can moniter what they transmit in their speech. This property is referred as:

Correct Answer: C. Feedback

2. .......... sounds are made with an oral tract constriction which is less than that required to produce friction.

Correct Answer: B. Approximant

3. Which of the following sets of distinctive features cannot distinguish between the four major classes of speech sounds, i.e., consonants, vowels, liquids and glides?

Correct Answer: C. ± Syllabic and ± Approximant

4. 'Pitch' of a sound is:

Correct Answer: A. auditory property of the sound which enables a listener to place it on a scale of high to low

5. Spectrum of a sound is closer to the auditory reality because it gives a visual representation of the constituent frequencies in terms of their:

Correct Answer: C. frequency, intensity and time

6. Once an inflectional affix is added to a form of word:

Correct Answer: C. No further derivation of that word is possible

7. In an explicator compound verb construction the V₁ (from the sequence of V₁+V₂) is known as:

Correct Answer: C. Polar verb

8. The word 'deadline' is an example of a compound noun in English which is classified as:

Correct Answer: A. Exocentric compound

9. The forms such as UNESCO, N ATO, AIIMS and ISRO are examples of:

Correct Answer: B. Acronyms

10. A morph which does not get realized as a morpheme is known as:

Correct Answer: C. Empty morph