MINIMAL PAIRS, SOCIOLINGUISTICS, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

1. What is pragmatic?

A. Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning and interpretation of words, signs,
and sentence structure.

B. Pragmatic is the science of studying about contextual meaning delivered

by the speaker (writer) and interpreted by the listener (reader).

C. Pragmatic is the science of studying about meaning of linguistic expressions.

D.None of these

2. Pin-bin, zeal- seal are the _

A. Allophones B. Allomorphs C. Minimal pairs D. Homonyms

3. Which branch of linguistics deals with the exploration of relationship between

language and society?

A. Sociología B. Sociolinguistics

C. Lingua Franca D. Disglossia

4. The term progressive education related to

A. Semantics B. Pragmatics C. Sociolinguistics D. Minimal pairs

5. are words that different in only one phoneme.

A. Allophones B. Allomorphs C. Minimal pairs D.Homonyms

6. Sociolect know as

A. Sociolinguistics B. Sociology C. Socio dialect D. Dialect

7.Sociolinguistics is most appropriately defined as which of these?

A.The scientific study of vocal sounds

B. The study of human behavior

C. The scientific study of language usage

D. The study of animal vocalizations

 8.The linguistic term "code-switching" refers to which of the following?

A. Using a secret or exclusive language in certain circumstances

B. The use of jargon within a language

C. A speaker's use of more than one language, dialect or register in an

utterance or interaction

D. A type of cryptology

9.A person who speaks three languages fluently is most properly referred to by which of

these

A.Magnalingual

B.Multilingual

C.Extralingual

D. Bilingual

10. Which of the following would NOT be considered a part of sociolinguistics?

A The study of the attitudes of people towards certain speech characteristics

B. The study of the sounds in spoken language

C. The general perception of a dialect within a society

D. The study of socioeconomic and/or political power factors and their influence on language

change.

11. Which of the following is NOT a dialect of English?

A. Boston Brahmin

B. RP, or "BBC" English

C. Pennsylvania Dutch

D. Gullah

12 .Which of the following languages was not widely spread as a result of colonialism?

A .French
B

Spanish

English

D.

Swedish

13. While the United States has no official language, the de facto language of government is

English. Of the following, which is the closest to the number of languages spoken as a native

language (mother tongue) by natural-born citizens of the United States?

A. 2

B. 300

C.5

D.100

14. English is most closely related to which of the following languages?

A.Latin

B.Frisia

C.Norse

D.French

15. To what does the term "lingua franca" refer?

A .Speaking French

B. A shared language primarily used for business, education or political reasons.

C.Speaking bluntly or directly

D A dialect spoken in the Franconian region of Germany

16. "Pidgin" most closely refers to:

A. An extinct Native American language

B.A rudimentary language used primarily for business/trade

interactions C.People who speak multiple dialects

D. A language group in central Africa

17. We can generally refer to a multilingual person as a:

A. Diglot

B. Triglot

C. Polyglot

D. Multi-talented

18. may be created by using identical word class frames.

A. Sentences

B. words

C. Syllables

D. All of these

19. "Polyglot" is a combination of two words, 'poly'

and 'glot'.

A. Latin

B. Greek

C. Russian

D. Norwegian

20. A person who can communicate very well in more

than two languages is known as:

A. Monolingual

B. Polyglot

C. Bilingual

D. Multilingual

22. A person who can use several languages is known

as:

A. Polyglot
B. Bilingual

C. Multilingual

D. Multi-talented

23. Human language:

A. Permits the discussion of past

B. Permits the discussion of future

C. Is based on arbitrary association between words

and things D. All of these

24. What do we call to the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge,

material objects and behaviour?

A. Society

B. Culture

C. Group

D. Sect

25. Which of the following is/are true about call

systems?

A. They are made in presence of some stimuli

B. They are based on limited number of sounds

C. Both A & B

D. None of these

26. Who use call systems?

A. Chimpanzees

B. Giraffe

C. Buffaloes

D. None of these
27. What do we call to a non-verbal communication using varying combination of sound,
body language, facial expressions, scent and touch?

A. Verbal Call System

B. Gesture Call System

C. Both A & B

D. Communicative Call System

28.Which manner of articulation will the sound be produced with the airflow channeled
into the nasal passages?

A.Nasal

B.Liquids

C.Affricate

D.Stops

29.Phonemes that have alternative phonetic realizations are called .

A.Allophones

B.Minimal pairs

C.Onset

D.Rhyme

30 Litotes is ...

A.irony

B.deliberate overstatement

C.sarcasm

D.deliberate understatement

31. The headword in a dictionary is usually the ...

A. lexeme

B.root

C. denotation
D.lemma

32. In semantics (not grammar) the referent is ...

A. the word's general sense

B. the extra meaning we attach to the word

C. what the word stands for

D. the particular instance of what we mean

33. Semantics is a branch of

A .semiotics

B.meaning theory

C. structural linguistics

D . communicative language theory

34. The statement: "I name this ship Poseidon" is an example of ...

A. perlocutionary

force B.illocutionary

force C.resultative

force

D. locutionary force

35. 'usage' refers to ...

A.a)pccuracy of

form

B.signification

C.how a word is used in reality

D. value

36. Saying "Sailing yachts can be interesting" is an example of breaking the maxim of ...

A.relation

B.quality

C.quantity
D. manner

37. Non Compositionality refers to ...

A.all phrasal verbs

B.the fact that we can understand a lexical item by understanding its parts

C. all colloquial language

D. the fact that we cannot

38. Of the following, only one type of communication fully qualifies as linguistic. Which
one?

A.people

talking

B.birdsong

C. whale communication

D. bees dancing

39.Connotation refers to ...

A.additional emotive

meaning

B. the cultural importance of a word

C. the word's fundamental meaning

D. what we understand the word to mean

40. Systems of writing which use a symbol for each word of the spoken utterance are called

(A) word writing or ideographic writing (B) logographic writing

(C) symbolic writing (D) all of the above

41. The scope of child - language studies has now been broadened to cover, not
only phonology, grammar and vocabulary but also:

(A) Syntactic structures of utterances (B) Semantic structures of utterances

(C) morphological structures of utterances (D) phonemic structures of utterances

42. "Horse is a hyponym of animal'. 'Cockroach is a hyponym of insect'. In these two

sentences, animal and insect are called:
(A) hyper ordinate (B) higher ordinate (C) super ordinate (D) lesser ordinate

43. Which of the following sentences is true

(A) The two types of notation are Phonemic notation and Phonetic notation

(B) Phonemic notation is sometimes referred to as broad notation and Phonetic notation as

narrow notation

(C) Both (A) and (B)

(D) Neither (A) nor (B)

44. One of the most significant developments in linguistics took place with the publication
of

Chomsky's book in 1957, named Syntactic Structures. It was the inauguration of :

(A)Transformative Generative linguistics (B) Stratificational linguistics

(C) Neo - Firthian linguistics (D) Tagmemics

45. The study of the relationship between language and the brain is called:

(A) neurolinguistics (B) sociolinguistics (C) psycholinguistics (D) paralinguistics

46. Undress' is related to:

(A) metonymy (B) reversives (C) hyponymy (D) co – hyponyms

47.The term Immediate Constituent analysis was introduced

by: (A). Chomsky (B) Bloomfield (C) Paul Tieghem (D) Crystal

48. The most important differences of speech within a community are due to differences in :

(A) density of communication (B) opinion about subjects of discussion

(C) lack of understanding (D) None of the above

49. A phonological system of a language includes:

(A) Rules for sound interaction (B) an inventory of sounds

(C) an inventory of sound features (D) All of the above

50. There are two active learning skills and two passive learning skills in language

(A) Reading and Writing are passive skill

Speaking and Writing are active skills

(B) Speaking and Reading are passive skills

(D)Listening and Writing are active skills