UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021Total Questions: 10021. The English word 'meat' that meant 'food' in general earlier, refers to 'food of flesh' now, and it is an example of a semantic change called:A. wideningB. narrowingC. metaphorD. metonymyCorrect Answer: B. narrowing22. In some English dialects, the change of the word chimney to chimley is an examplè ofA. metathesisB. coalescenceC. assimilationD. dissimilationCorrect Answer: D. dissimilation23. In sociolinguistics a group of institutionalized social situations typically constrained by a common set of behavioural rules is called:A. DomainB. CompoundC. IdentityD. ContactCorrect Answer: A. Domain24. Accommodation theory in sociolinguistics aims at:A. explaining why people modify their style of speaking to become more like or less like their addresseeB. explaining why people accommodate other people of higher social statusC. explaining the syntax of code-mixed grammarD. explaining the features of middle and lower middle class languageCorrect Answer: A. explaining why people modify their style of speaking to become more like or less like their addressee25. Which of the following is not true for ELAN?A. It is a part of EXMARaLDAB. ELAN allows researchers to time align transcrist and recordingsC. It allows a researcher to make numerous dependent and independent annotations on any word, utteranceD. It allows different speakers to be transcribed on different tiers, and several coding tiers can be addedCorrect Answer: A. It is a part of EXMARaLDA26. Chambers and Trudgill (1998) introduced the term NORM to describe the typical informant of traditional dialect research, which meant?A. Normal speaker, different from speakers whose speech is affectedB. Normal ordinary Rustic MenC. Non-Native Ordinary Resident or MotivatorD. Non-mobile older Rural MalesCorrect Answer: D. Non-mobile older Rural Males27. A grammatical pattern in which the subject of an intransitive clause is treated in the same way as the direct object of a transitive clause, and differently from transitive subject is known as:A. TransitivityB. AccusitivityC. CausativityD. ErgativityCorrect Answer: D. Ergativity28. A non-finite verb form which mainly masks the adverbial subordination in most South Asian languages is known as:A. Past participleB. Present participleC. Conjunctive participleD. Future participleCorrect Answer: C. Conjunctive participle29. In most Dardic languages including Kashmiri the voiced aspirates:A. have preserved aspirationB. have lost aspirationC. have reduced aspirationD. have extra aspirationCorrect Answer: B. have lost aspiration30. In Hindi, Urdu a compound verb is formed by putting:A. A polar and a vector verb togetherB. A vector and a polar togetherC. A vector and a vector togetherD. A polar and a polar togetherCorrect Answer: A. A polar and a vector verb togetherSubmit Quiz« Previous12345678910Next »
