UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021

Total Questions: 100

31. Just as spoken languages use phonemic features to produce meaningful words, sign languages use manual features as phonemic features. They are:

Correct Answer: D. All of the above

32. If in a study, the points of difference between two languages are identified and then these are emphasised as potential areas of difficulty in learning those languages, it is called:

Correct Answer: C. Contrastive Analysis

33. Most scholars hold the view that:

Correct Answer: C. there are some differences between first and second language learning

34. If language is considered as only what is observable and measurable, it is the view of:

Correct Answer: B. Behaviourism

35. In its original intention, the ....... test requires the construction of an artificial cognitive agent with a language behaviour so natural that it cannot be distinguished from that of a human.

Correct Answer: C. Turing

36. In order to avoid unnecessary "word material" headlines are known to have a tendency for:

Correct Answer: D. Telegraphic style

37. Read the following statement carefully and choose the most appropriate answer that refers to the phatic function:

(a) A person goes to a Municipality Office for getting permission to construct a cowshed, meets the officer in-charge and says, "Good Morning Sir!"
(b).A person goes to a Municipality Office and work the security guard as to whom he should meet for getting permission to construct a cow-shed
(c) A person goes to a Municipality Office, gets permission to construct a cow-shed and says to the officer, "Thank you very much Sir!"
(d) A person goes to a Municipality Office for getting permission to construct a cowshed, and asks an employee of that office, "who is the officer I should meet for constructing a cow-shed"?
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a) only

38. The forms such as cut-cut-cut or put-put-put for V₁- V₂ - V₃ examplify:

(a) Meaning but no form
(b) No form, no meaning
(c) Form and meaning both
(d) Form but no meaning
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (a) only

39. In Inflectional and Derivational morphology:

(a) '-er' in 'worker' is a derivational suffix
(b)'-s' in 'this machine works well' is an inflectional suffix
(c)'-s' in 'teachers' 'transit house' is a derivational suffix
(d) '-ing' in 'this is a working lunch' is a derivational suffix
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (d) only

40. Which of the following is an adjunct in the string 'the book of poems with the red cover'?

(a) the book
(b) of poems
(c) the book of poems
(d) with the red cover
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (d) only