UGC-NET (NTA) Linguistics, June-2021

Total Questions: 100

81. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Borrowed words are usually remodelled to fit the phonological and morphological structure of the borrowing language.
Reason (R): The strongest evidence for loan word identification and the direction of borrowing comes from phonological criteria.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) NOT the correct explanation of (A)

82. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Aptitude is essentially composed of three main abilities (i) phonetic coding ability (ii) language analytic ability, and (iii) memory ability
Statement II: Language analytic ability includes "grammatical sensitivity" and "inductive language learning"!
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

83. Given below are two statements :

Statement I: Comprehensive language documentation includes an outline of the sociolinguistic context in which a given language is used, as well as audio (and if possible, video) recordings of a wide range of different language genres and domains of usage.
Statement II: Language documentation differs from traditional linguistic discriptions which have focused almost exclusively on the grammatical and lexical aspects of a language, and paid little attention to patterns of sociolinguistic variation.
In the light of the above statements, Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

84. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Almost all Indian languages which have SOV as basic word order have post-positions.
Statement II: Persian, a language with SOV as basic word order, has pre-position.
In the light of the above statements, Choose the most appropriate statement answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

85. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Total loss of communication ability due to injury to certain parts of the brain is referred to as Global Aphasia.
Statement II: Childhood aphasia can occur as a developmental disorder without any injury to the brain. In the light of the above statements, Choose the most appropriate statement answei from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect

86. Given below are two Statements:

Statement I: Phonic substance refers to speech seen as a set of physically definable articulatory, acoustic, auditory properties.
Statement II: Phonic substance caustitutes an empirical datum to which theories of language must ultimately relate.
In the light of the above statements, Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

87. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: A phoneme is the basic form of a sound as sensed mentally rather than spoken or heard.
Statemenț II: Each phoneme-a mental abstraction in itself-is mainfested aurally by one or more sounds, called allophones, which are perceivable sounds corresponding to the phoneme in various environments.
In the light of the above statements, Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct

88. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Correct Answer: A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

89. Give below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Source filter theory/model is an acoustic model of speech production.
Reason (R): Source refers to the waveform of vibrating vocal cards, whereas the oral chamber is the resonance filter.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

90. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Although the Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English was initially planned to make it maximally comparable to the Brown Corpus and the LOB Corpus, there were some deviations in the Kolhapur Corpus from these two Corpora due to some practical problems.
Statement II: One deviation of Kolhapur Corpus from the Brown and LOB Corpus was synchroncity, the Brown Corpus and the LOB Corpus stored texts published in 1961, the Kolhapur Corpus stored samples of English texts published later in 1978.
In the light of the above Statements, Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct