Language, Linguistics & Prosody Previous Year UGC-NET English

Language, Linguistics PYQs UGC-NET English

1. Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?

1)Dudwords
2)Ghostwords
3)Protowords
4)Pseudowords

2. Usage in “you have hissed the mystery lectures” is an example of:

1)Error of lexical choice
2)Inadverant mistake
3)Metathesis
4)Spoonerism

3. The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

1)Lexeme
2)Morpheme
3)Phoneme
4)Sememe

4. Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:

1)Homonyms
2)Homograft’s
3)Homologues
4)Homophones

5. Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts’?

1)Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap
2)J.L. Austin and John Searle
3)Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker
4)Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

6. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language.

Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the mother tongue of a community.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer:

1)Both statement I and statement II are correct.
2)Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.
3)Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect.
4)Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct.

7. Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child’s first language acquisition:

(a) Holophrastic

(b) Babbling

(d) Cooing

1)(a), (c), (d), (b)
2)(b), (a), (d), (c)
3)(c), (b), (a), (d)
4)(d), (b), (a), (c)

8. Which among the following are true about the figures of speech?

[A] Figures based on sound – paronomasia

[B] Figures based on construction – zeugma

[C] Figures based on imagination – irony

[D] Figures based on association – chiasmus

[E] Figures based on indirectness – euphemism

1)A, B and E only
2)A, B and C only
3)B, C and D only
4)C, D and E only

9. Which figure of speech is implicit in ‘light winged smoke!’?

1)Apostrophe
2)Simile
3)Oxymoron
4)Hyperbole

10. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The teaching of non-native literature to the students of English language teaching is arid.

Statement II: The negative responses in ELT classroom can create an interesting classroom situation.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer:

1)Both statement I and statement II are correct
2)Both statement I and statement II are incorrect
3)Statement I is correct but statement II is incorrect
4)Statement I is incorrect but statement II is correct

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11. Which of these statements are true in the context of neuro-linguistic programming?

[A] ‘Neuro’ in NLP means that our behavior is determined by our sensory experiences

[B] Grammatical knowledge is a matter of practice

[C] NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s

[D] Neuro covers “invisible thoughts and visible physiological reactions”

[E] All of the above

1)E only
2)A, C and D only
3)A and D only
4)B, C and D only

12. Identify the correct combination among the following:

[A] Spondee: It consists of three stressed syllables

[B] Pyrrhic: It consists of two unstressed syllables

[C] Amphimacer: It is a metrical foot of three syllables

[D] Choriambus: It is a foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables enclosing two unstressed syllables

[E] Trochaic: It has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.

1)A, B and C only
2)B, C and E only
3)B, C and D only
4)C, D and E only

13. Identify the correct combinations:

[A] Dadaism – Tristan Tzara

[B] Super realism – Guillaume Apollinaire

[C] Surrealism – Filipo Marinetti

[D] Futurism – Andre Breton

[E] Nihilism – Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

1)(A), (C) and (E)
2)(A), (B) and (E)
3)(B), (C) and (D)
4)(C), (D) and (E)

14. Which of the following methods is the oldest for teaching English language?

1)The Bilingual Method
2)The Grammar Translation Method
3)The Direct Method
4)The Situation Method

15. Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] “Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.”

[B] “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

[C] “Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Thou foster child of silence and slow time.”

[D] “And ice, mast-high, come floating by, as green as emerald.”

List II

[I] Irony

[II] Simile

[III] Antithesis

[IV] Assonance

1)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
2)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
3)(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

16. Which of these are not forms of flash fiction?

[A] Drabble

[B] Postcard fiction

[C] Novelette

[D] Short story

[E] Nanofiction

1)A and E only
2)A, B and E only
3)D and E only
4)C and D only

17. The arrival of corpus linguistics has revitalized:

1)The Writing Of Observation-Based Grammar.
2)The Writing That Does Not Care For Grammar.
3)The Use Of Long Sentences In Newspaper Reporting.
4)The Quality Of Newspaper Reporting.

18. Second Language is:

1)The Language Second In Importance In Terms Of The Use Of Languages By A Learner.
2)The Language Used By A Second-Generation Learner.
3)Any Language Other Than The Learner’s Native Language Or Mother Tongue.
4)The Language Which Is The Learner’s Native Language But Not The Mother Tongue.

19. When a learner’s second language learning system seems to freeze or get stuck at some more or less deviant stage, that phenomenon is known as:

1)Freezer
2)Fossilization
3)Language Learning Blockade
4)Language Scaffolding

20. Integrative motivation refers to:

1)Language Learning For Immediate Goals.
2)Language Learning For Practical Goals.
3)Language Learning For Personal Growth And Cultural Enrichment.
4)None Of These

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21. Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): Co-operative learning activities are those in which students must work together in order to complete a task or solve a problem.

Reason (R): These techniques are used to identify a weak learner and to separate him/her from the rest of the members of the group for taking special care of him/her.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer:

1)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3)(A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
4)(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.

22. Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): In second language learning, in the same classroom setting, some students progress rapidly through the initial stages of learning a new language while others struggle making very slow progress.

Reason (R): Some learners never achieve native-like command of a second language.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer:

1)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3)(A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
4)(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.

23. The full form of MLAT is:

1)Modern Language Alertness Test
2)Modern Language Affective Test
3)Modern Language Aptitude Test
4)Modern Language Assessment Test

24. Who among the following argued that children learn language based on behaviorist reinforcement principles by associating words with meaning?

1)Noam Chomsky
2)B. F. Skinner
3)Stephen Krashen
4)Peter Singer

25. In the context of ‘nature-nurture’ debate in Linguistics, there is a view that there must be an innate core of abstract knowledge about language form, which pre-specifies a framework for all natural human languages and is currently known as ‘Universal Grammar’. Among the following, who is the linguist proposing this view?

1)Claude Levi-Strauss
2)Noam Chomsky
3)Roland Barthes
4)Richard Rorty

26. Which of the following points are correct regarding the Direct Method of teaching English in a classroom scenario?

[A] There is no interference of the mother tongue.

[B] There is direct connection with the target language (English). Learners think in the target language and express in the target language.

[C] The teaching learning process is carried out in English.

[D] This method is useful in overcrowded classroom situation.

[E] This method is based on the principle of “Doing by Learning.”

1)A, B, C
2)B, D, E
3)C, D, E
4)D, E, A

27. Which among the following statements are true?

(A) Miscegenation is a sexual relationship or marriage between the people of the same race

(B) Creole is a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community

(D) Mulatto is a person of mixed white and black ancestry

(E) Australian indigenous population is termed as Red Indians

1)(A) and (E) Only
2)(B) and (C) Only
3)(C) and (D) Only
4)(B) and (D) Only

28. A portmanteau is:

1)A word which sounds the same but have different meanings.
2)A word that results from blending two or more words or part of words.
3)Creation of new words without reference to the existing morphological resources.
4)Copying a word that originally belonged to one language into another language.

29. Who among the following described drama in the following words?

“A true play is three dimensional; it is literature that walks and talks before our eyes.”

1)Marjorie Boulton
2)Allardyce Nicoll
3)G.B. Shaw
4)Arthur Miller

30. Match List I with List II:

List I (Literary Device)

[A] Hyperbole

[B] Metonymy

[C] Synecdoche

[D] Periphrasis

List II (Definition)

[I] Referring to something by the name of something else that is closely connected with it

[II] A roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking

[III] A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

[IV] An intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect

1)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
2)(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
3)(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

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