Language & Linguistics Mcqs
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Language & Linguistics Mcqs (Total Quiz: 213)
MCQ: A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.
- Syntagmatic
- Synergy
- Performance
- N. O. T
A
MCQ: A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
- Synchrony
- Diachrony
- Paradigmatic
- N. O. T
A
MCQ: In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?
- Productivity
- Langue
- Paradigmatic
- Parole
A
MCQ: __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’
- Performance
- Parole
- Paradigmatic
- N. O. T
A
MCQ: A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
- Both b and c
- Diachrony/Synchrony
- Acceptable/Unacceptable
- N. O. T
C
MCQ: The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguisctics
- Biolinguistics
- None of these
B
MCQ: Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
- Ferdenand de Sassure
- Albert Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
- Noah Webster
C