UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021

(a) X m-commands Y
(b) Y m-commands X
(c) No barrier intervenes between X and Y
(d) Barriers need to be present between X and Y
(e) The maximal projection dominating X, dominates Y as well
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(a) All movements should occur as soon as possible
(b) An operation should take place only when it is needed and not before
(c) It prefers derivations which prefer movements until after spell-out
(d) Post ponement of movement until after spell-out is preferred so that the results of the movement do not affect PF
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(a) "Person deixis" involves the speaker known as the first person, the addressee, and other significant participants
(b) Spatial deixis manifests itself in the form of locative adverbs, and demonstratives
(c) Temporal deixis functions to locate points or intervals on the time axis
(d) Social deixis is exemplified by certain uses of pronouns
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(a) Locutionary Acts were explained by Austin
(b) Perlocution acts are performed by means of body language
(c) Illocutionary acts are not internal to locutionary act
(d) The illocutionary acts can not be performed via different locutionary act
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(a) Linguistic area and language contact
(b) Family tree and language diversification
(c) Dialect geography and wave theory
(d) Isoglosses and focal area
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(a) Assemble cognates
(b) Determine the status of similar correspondences
(c) Establish sound correspondences
(d) Reconstruct the proto-sounds
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(a) Displacement
(b) Synecdoche
(c) Widening
(d) Narrowing
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(a) It is an additional language used for wider communication in a community or across communities
(b) Swahili and German fulfill this function in many African Countries
(c) Speakers often have limited proficiency in the auxiliary languages
(d) It is never functionally restricted
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(a) They are paralinguistic features which signal a shift in interview situation
(b) In Labovian sociolinguistics particular attention is paid to channel cues
(c) Labov insisted that each contextual style had to be accompanied by appropriate channel cues
(d) In particular, speech rate and laughter were not considered as channel cues
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(a) Labov believed that r-pronunciation before vowels was being re-introduced into New York speech from abóve
(b) The introduction of r-pronunciation after vowels was a feature of the yonger people rather than of older people
(c) This feature was more likely to occur as the formality level in speech increased and would be more likely at the ends of words (floor) than before consonants (fourth)
(d) He set out to test his hypothesis by walking around three New York departmental stores which were demarcated by the social-class group to which they catered
(e) From the shop assistant Labov would seek a careful repetition of 'fourth floor' by pretending not to hear the initial response
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