TS SET 2012: Paper III, Linguistics
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Paper : III
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LINGUISTICS
Paper – III
1. A specially equipped classroom for foreign 6. In New York some speakers pronounce
language learning is the word ‘bird’ as, ‘boid’, and ‘33rd street’
(A) Language laboratory as ‘Toitytoid street’. This is an example of
(A) Indicator (B) Marker
(B) Audio visual studio
(C) Variable (D) Stereotype
(C) Phonetic laboratory
(D) Computer laboratory 7. Which one of the following diagrams
represents the properties of vowels (V),
2. Which one of the following is a diagnostic consonants (C) and semi vowels (S) ?
for structure ?
(A) Substitution
(B) Reference (A) V C
(C) Coreference
(D) Deixis S
3. The past tense form cut is a case of
(A) Replacive morpheme
V
(B) Zero modification S
S
(B)
(C) Suppletin
(D) Affixation C
C
4. The sentence ‘She kept smoking’
illustrates
(A) Iterative aspect C
V
(B) Perfective aspect (C)
S
(C) Progressive aspect
(D) Inchoative aspect
5. Fricatives are accompanied by
(A) Periodic vibration
(D) V C
C
(B) Aperiodic vibration
S
(C) Voicing
(D) Aspiration
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8. Match correctly : 11. _______ is the process in which similar
phonemes are made dissimilar.
I. [ ] 1. Optionality
(A) Progressive assimilation
II. ⇒ 2. Allophone (B) Assimilation
III. ( ) 3. Transformation (C) Regressive assimilation
IV. / / 4. Phoneme (D) Dissimilation
Code : 12. The type of bilingualism that exists in
countries like Switzerland, Canada where
I II III IV
people speaking two or more languages
(A) 2 3 1 4 live together is known as
(B) 3 2 1 4 (A) Compound bilingualism
(B) Stable bilingualism
(C) 1 3 4 2
(C) Unstable bilingualism
(D) 4 2 3 1
(D) Coordinate bilingualism
9. Assertion (1) : Mass media helps for the 13. Match the items from List – 1 with those
standardization of a from List – 2.
language. List – 1 List – 2
1. Shows social A. Stereotype
Assertion (2) : Mass media seldom significance
promotes a standard 2. Shows no social B. Marker
variety in a language. significance
(A) Both (1) and (2) are true 3. Functions as a sign C. Slang
of identity of a group
(B) Both (1) and (2) are false
4. An item which is D. Indicator
(C) (1) is true, but (2) is false
characteristic of
(D) (1) is false, but (2) is true younger generation
of informal style
10. DP means
Choose the correct option :
(A) Deictic phrase
(A) 1 – B, 2 – D, 3 – A, 4 – C
(B) Demonstrative phrase
(B) 1 – D, 2 – C, 3 – B, 4 – A
(C) Determiner phrase (C) 1 – C, 2 – D, 3 – A, 4 – B
(D) Diagnostic phrase (D) 1 – A, 2 – D, 3 – C, 4 – B
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14. Assertion (A) : Literary texts have 18. Which one of the following is a correct
problems of translating match ?
culture terms.
(A) Ram went to Hyderabad – PRO
Assertion (B) : Knowledge texts have (B) Ram hit himself – Anaphor
problems of translating
(C) They liked him – R – Expression
technical terms.
(D) Whom did they invite ? Exceptional
(A) (A) is true, but (B) is false
(B) (A) is false, but (B) is true case marking
(C) Both (A) and (B) are true
19. Given below are two statements, one
(D) Both (A) and (B) are false
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
15. The results or effects which are produced labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct
by means of saying constitute answer from the codes given below the
(A) Perlocutionary Act list.
(B) Locutionary Act Assertion (A) : To get information we
(C) Speech Act
need informants in the
(D) Illocutionary Act
field work.
16. Assertion (A) : Rule A precedes and Reason (R) : A good informant should
restricts outputs for rule B be an interacting person
to apply to
so as to give information.
Assertion (B) : Rule A bleeds rule B. (A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong
(A) (A) is correct, but (B) is wrong
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct
(B) (A) is wrong, but (B) is correct
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct
(C) Both (A) and (B) are correct
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong
(D) Both (A) and (B) are wrong
20. The ability to manipulate forms in an
17. In the following list which one is not a mass
media ? expression for our own pleasure is
(A) Television (A) Poetic function
(B) Telephone (B) Textual function
(C) Newspaper (C) Ideational function
(D) Radio (D) Interpersonal function
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21. Assertion (A) : Lexical rules do not 25. Which one of the following is the best
introduce distinctions not example of agglutinative language ?
present in lexical entries. (A) English
Reason (R) : Lexical rules are structure (B) Telugu
preserving. (C) Turkish
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong (D) Hindi
(B) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct 26. Assertion (1) : Lexicalization is the
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong process whereby
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correct concepts are encoded in
the words of a language.
22. Speakers of Czech, Austrian, German and
Assertion (2) : Grammatizalisation is the
Hungarian share speaking rules about the
change of a lexical form
proper forms of greetings and suitable
into a grammatical form.
topics for conversation, but speak different
(A) (1) is true and (2) is true
languages. They constitute one
(B) (1) is false and (2) is false
(A) Speech community
(C) (1) is true and (2) is false
(B) Linguistic area
(D) (1) is false and (2) is true
(C) Speech area
(D) Multiplex network 27. The following sentence illustrates :
The Principal visited the old women’s
23. Tick the odd one out
hostel yesterday.
(A) Manual translation
(A) lexical ambiguity
(B) Loan translation
(B) logical ambiguity
(C) Machine translation (C) structural ambiguity
(D) Machine aided translation (D) sentential ambiguity
24. The acronym LAD refers to 28. Optimality theory is a type of
(A) Language Assisted Device (A) Association based framework
(B) Language Acquisition Device (B) Non-derivational framework
(C) Language Axis Device (C) Prosodic framework
(D) Linguistic Aided Device (D) Feature geometry based framework
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29. If a group of people work in the same 32. A language whose structure and lexicon
office, but do not have any contact with have been drastically reduced, and which
each other outside the office, they are is not the native language of any who use
related in a it is
(A) speech network (A) Creole
(B) multiplex network (B) Pidgin
(C) uniplex network (C) Dialect
(D) Jorgon
(D) complex network
33. While providing the semantic description
30. The literacy rate in India in the year 2011
of dictionary entries one has to consider
is
(A) the linguistic definition
(A) 65.0%
(B) historical factors
(B) 75.0%
(C) cultural features
(C) 70.0%
(D) all of the above
(D) 60.0%
34. If a statement P entails another statement
31. The Telugu language provides instances
Q, then
of
Assertion (I) : Both P and Q must be
I. Vowel harmony
true.
II. Echo-formation
Assertion (II) : Any entailment of P
III. Verbal compounding
never contains more
IV. Head-first
information than P.
(A) II and III are correct
(A) (I) is false and (II) is true
(B) I, IV and III are correct (B) (I) is true and (II) is false
(C) IV and I are not correct (C) Both (I) and (II) are true
(D) III, I and II are correct (D) Both (I) and (II) are false
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35. Match correctly : 38. Assertion (A) : Indo-Aryan and Dravidian
I. Minimal pair 1. Generative languages contain
framework retroflex sounds.
II. Faithfulness 2. Phonemic
Reason (R) : North and South Indian
constraint principle
languages contain many
III. Underlying 3. Autosegmental
types of consonants.
representation
IV. C-V Tier 4. Optimality (A) A is true and R is the right explanation
theory for it
Code : (B) A is true, but R cannot be the right
I II III IV explanation for it
(A) 3 4 2 1 (C) A is true, but R is false
(B) 2 4 1 3
(D) A is false, but R is true
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3 39. Figurative meaning is originally
36. Which of the following is more likely to be (A) Transferred meaning
a speech community ? (B) Technical meaning
(A) people of Andhra Pradesh (C) Basic meaning
(B) people living in Hyderabad
(D) Lexical meaning
(C) people belonging to the same caste
(D) an association of doctors 40. Which one of the following statements is
not true about the Government-Binding
37. Assertion (A) : All purpose, fully
automatic, high quality Theory (GB) ?
machine translation is (A) GB is modular
possible.
(B) GB contains a very general
Reason (R) : Natural languages are transformational component
highly complex, which (C) There are four critical levels at which
cannot be manipulated
various conditions are applied to filter
simply by a set of rules.
out illicit phrase markers
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false (D) All the modules in GB are
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false independent of each other and no
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true grammatical relation connects them
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41. Assertion (A) : The aphasic articulation 43. Match the items in List – I with the
is poor and speech is descriptions in List – II and select the
effortful. correct answer from the codes given below
Assertion (B) : The aphasic has lesion List – I List – II
in the Broca’s area.
a. speech corpora 1. a series of
(A) (A) is correct, but (B) is wrong
monolingual
(B) (A) is wrong, but (B) is correct corpora
(C) Both (A) and (B) are correct collected for a
(D) Both (A) and (B) are wrong range of
42. Match the items from List – 1 with those languages
from List – 2. b. spoken corpora 2. corpora in
List – 1 List – 2 audio file
1. conventionally A. Norms of format
recognized and interaction c. comparable 3. a set of audio
expected outcomes and corpora recorded text
of an exchange interpretation in an
2. actual form and B. Key orthographic
content of what transcription
is said d. parallel corpora 4. gathering text
3. the tone or manner C. Ends in one
in which a message language and
is conveyed then having
4. the specific D. Act sequence translation in
behaviours, and other
languages
proprieties that are
attached to speaking Code :
Choose the correct option : a b c d
(A) 1 – B, 2 – D, 3 – A, 4 – C (A) (2) (3) (1) (4)
(B) 1 – D, 2 – B, 3 – A, 4 – C (B) (3) (2) (4) (1)
(C) 1 – A, 2 – C, 3 – B, 4 – D (C) (3) (2) (1) (4)
(D) 1 – C, 2 – D, 3 – B, 4 – A (D) (2) (3) (4) (1)
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44. Select the correct order :
46. Which level need not be postulated in
I. Indo-Aryan
II. Indo-Iranian syntax if we assume that movement is
III. Prakrits driven by a feature-checking requirement ?
IV. Hindi
(A) IV III I II (A) D-structure
(B) III IV II I (B) S-structure
(C) II I III IV
(D) I II IV III (C) Phonetic form
45. Match each expression under A with a (D) Logical form
statement in B that characterizes it
A B 47. Contralateral function of the brain refers
a. Noisy crow i. compound to
noun
b. Scare crow ii. phrase (A) Left controlling left part
consisting of
(B) Right controlling right part
a grammatical
morph (C) Left controlling right part and right
followed by a
lexical morph controlling left part
c. The crow iii. Root (D) Upper controlling lower part and
morpheme
plus lower controlling upper part
inflectional
affix 48. In normal conversation, a greeting gets
d. Crows iv. Phrase
consisting of back another greeting, a question gets an
an adjective answer and so on. This type of utterances
plus noun
are known as
Code :
a b c d (A) adjacency pair
(A) iv i ii iii (B) summons
(B) ii iv iii i
(C) i ii iv iii (C) insertion sequence
(D) iii i ii iv (D) interview
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49. Pick out the characteristic features of a 51. A morph which represents two morphemes
corpus from the items listed below. Select (A) Link morph
your answer from the code. (B) Portmanteau morph
(C) Zero morph
a. large body of language data
(D) Unique morph
b. representation of language use in
different domains 52. Assertion (I) : If strong features survived
to the interface (either PF
c. texts from literature or LF), they would violate
d. in machine readable form Full Interpretation.
e. texts collected for specific purpose Assertion (II) : All strong features have to
be checked during the
f. usable in manual operation
overt movement.
Code : (A) Assertion (I) is true and Assertion (II)
is false
(A) a, b and c
(B) Assertion (I) is false and Assertion (II)
(B) d, e and f is true
(C) a, c and e (C) Both the Assertions are true
(D) a, b and d (D) Both the Assertions are false
50. Read the items in the Lists I and II and 53. The concept of critical period was
proposed by
select the correct matching :
(A) Lenneberg
List – I List – II (B) Skinner
I. South Asian 1. Eskimo (C) Broca
languages (D) Wernicke
II. Polysynthetic 2. Reduplication 54. Assertion (1) : In many languages there
III. Indo-Aryan 3. Punjabi are different lexical items
indicating male-female
language distinction.
IV. Universals of 4. Greenberg Assertion (2) : This shows that there is
Human language ‘sexism’ or ‘male
chauvinism’ in languages.
I II III IV
(A) both (1) and (2) are correct
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) (1) is correct but (2) is not necessarily
(B) 2 1 3 4 true
(C) 1 3 2 4 (C) both (1) and (2) are wrong
(D) 2 3 1 4 (D) (1) is false, but (2) is true
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55. Assertion (1) : The disadvantage of a 58. Look at the following sentences :
top-down in parsing is
A. She hit him right on the nose.
due to back-tracking.
B. *On the nose, she hit him right.
Assertion (2) : Back-tracking can be
avoided through garden C. Right on the nose, she hit him.
path approach. Assuming that only maximal projections
(A) Both (1) and (2) are true
can be proposed, which one of the
(B) Both (1) and (2) are false
following is correct ?
(C) (1) is true, but (2) is false
(A) ‘on the nose’ is a prepositional
(D) (1) is false, but (2) is true
phrase
56. Match correctly :
(B) ‘right on the nose’ is a prepositional
I. Thesaurus 1. Mental store of
phrase
words
(C) ‘right on the nose’ is an adverbial
II. Etymological 2. Rhyming
phrase
dictionary words
III. Lexicon 3. Similar words (D) ‘on the nose’ is a maximal projection
IV. Reverse dictionary 4. History of
59. Pivot is a concept connected to
words
(A) voice onset time
Code :
(B) two-word utterances
I II III IV
(C) universal grammar
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 2 4 3 1 (D) speech therapy
(C) 4 3 1 2
60. The process of assigning word classes to
(D) 4 1 2 3
each word in a corpus is known by the
57. The deletion of a word-internal vowel is term
called
(A) Tokenization
(A) Syncope
(B) Disambiguation
(B) Apocope
(C) Vowel shift (C) POS Tagging
(D) Haplology (D) Lemmatisation
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61. Match the items in List – I with List – II and 64. The two levels of two-level morphology
select the correct answer from the codes are
given below. (A) surface level and deep level
List – I List – II (B) surface level and lexical level
(C) surface level and morphological
a. construction i. instrumental
level
b. function ii. restricted
(D) morphological level and syntactic
c. case iii. endocentric
level
d. code iv. emotive
65. Native word is used to express the
Code : concept foreign to the native language. It
a b c d is known as
(A) i ii iii iv (A) Loan word
(B) ii iii iv i (B) Loan shift
(C) iii iv i ii (C) Loan blend
(D) iv i ii iii (D) Loan extension
62. What principle does the following 66. Assertion (A) : Speaking is a task of
encoding.
sentence violate ?
Assertion (B) : Reading is a task of
*John showed herselfi to Maryi
decoding.
(A) Theta criterion
(A) (A) is correct, but (B) is wrong
(B) Case principle
(B) (A) is wrong, but (B) is correct
(C) Subjacency
(C) Both (A) and (B) are correct
(D) Principle A
(D) Both (A) and (B) are wrong
63. Holophrastic stage refers to 67. Function words have
(A) one phrase stage (A) Referential meaning
(B) the transition from word to phrase (B) Relational meaning
(C) impaired stage (C) Denotational meaning
(D) one word stage (D) Lexical meaning
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68. Match the items of List – I with List – II and 71. The field of phonology presents various
select the correct answer from codes given
frameworks. Identify the correct order in
below.
List – I List – II which the following appeared in the field
a. ambiguity i. long-distance (A) Lexical phonology, Generative
b. dependency ii. word-sense phonology, Natural generative
c. disambiguation iii. optimality phonology, Phonemics
d. theory iv. structural
(B) Phonemics, Lexical phonology,
Code :
Generative phonology, Natural
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii generative phonology
(B) ii iii iv i (C) Phonemics, Generative phonology,
(C) ii iv iii i Natural generative phonology,
(D) iv iii ii i
Lexical phonology
69. Languages of Dravidian family are _____ (D) Natural generative phonology,
the character.
Lexical phonology, Generative
(A) Isolative
(B) Agglutinative phonology, Phonemics
(C) Synthetic
(D) Polysynthetic 72-75 :
70. Match correctly : Read the passage below and answer the
I. Semanticity 1. Dialogue questions that follow based on your
II. Displacement 2. Self - understanding of the passage.
monitoring
III. Turn taking 3. Meaningfull - The minimal distinctive unit of grammar,
ness
and the central concern of Morphology is
IV. Complete feedback 4. Referring
beyond here the morpheme. Its original motivation was
and now as an alternative to the notion of the word,
Code : which had proved to be difficult to work
I II III IV
within comparing languages. Words,
(A) 3 4 1 2
moreover, could be quite complex in
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 1 4 structure, and there was a need for a single
(D) 3 4 2 1 concept to interrelate such notions as
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Root, Prefix, Compound, etc. The 72. The forms which are more complex and
morpheme, accordingly was seen difficult to work with are
primarily as the smallest functioning unit (A) Morph
in the composition of words. (B) Morpheme
(C) Words
Morphemes are commonly classified into
(D) Affixes
free forms and bound forms; thus unselfish
consists of the three morphemes un, self, 73. The smallest meaningful unit in a language
and ish, of which ‘self’ is a free form, un– is
and –ish are bound forms. A word (A) word
consisting of a single (free) morpheme is (B) lexeme
a monomorphemic word : its opposite is (C) morpheme
polymorphemic. A further distinction may (D) phoneme
be made between lexical and
74. The plural marker –lu is a
“grammatical morphemes”, the former are
(A) bound form and also a morpheme
morphemes used for the construction of
(B) bound form but not a morpheme
new words in a language, such as in
(C) free form and also a morpheme
compound words (e.g. blackbird), and
(D) free form but not a morpheme
affixes such as –ship, –ise; the latter are
75. The word ‘cet.lu’ in Telugu is a
morphemes used to express grammatical
relationships between a word and its (A) Monomorphemic
context, such as plurality or past tense. (B) Polymorphemic
Grammatical morphemes which are (C) Compound
separate words are called function words. (D) None
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