PREVIOUS QUESTIONS
Introduction to Linguistics
2017
English
Subject Code:
231115
(Introduction to
Linguistics)
Time: 4 Hours Full
Marks: 80
Part-A
1. Answer any ten of the following questions 1
× 10 = 10
a) What
is linguistics?
Ans: Linguistics is the
scientific study of language.
b) Who
is Saussure?
Ans: Ferdinand de
Saussure is a renowned Swiss linguist and semiotician. He is the proponent of
the terms Langue and Parole.
c) What
is Langue?
Ans: According to
Saussure, langue is both a social product of the faculty of speech and a
collection of necessary conventions that have been adopted by society to permit
individuals to exercise that faculty.
d) What
is a monophthong?
Ans: A monophthong is a
pure vowel articulated without any obstacle in vocal tract.
e) What
is Pitch?
Ans: Pitch is the rate of vibration of
the vocal folds. In speech, it is the highness or lowness of tone as perceived
by the air.
f) What
is a bound morpheme?
Ans: A bound morpheme
is a morpheme that is not a word itself but appears only as part of words,
always in conjunction with a root and sometimes with other bound morphemes.
g) What
is LAD?
Ans: LAD stands for
Language Acquisition Device which is a hypothetical tool hardwired into the
brain that helps children rapidly learn and understand language.
h) What
is Sociolinguistics?
Ans: Sociolinguistics
is the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences
of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and
bilingualism.
i) What
is IPA?
Ans: IPA stands for
International Phonetic Alphabet devised by the International Phonetic
Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of the
sounds of spoken language.
j) What
is register?
Ans: A register is a
variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social
setting.
k) What
is Accommodation Theory in SLA?
Ans: In linguistics, accommodation
is the process by which participants in a conversation adjust their accent,
diction, or other aspects of language according to the speech style of the
other participant.
1) What
is intonation?
Ans: Intonation is the
rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
Part-B
Answer
any five of the following questions:
4
× 5 = 20
2. Write a note on Syntagmatic and
Paradigmatic relationships.
3, What do you mean by voiced and
voiceless sounds? Write a note on them.
4. Distinguish between Free Morpheme and
Bound Morpheme.
5. How can you differentiate between
langue and parole?
6. Define Diphthong. Mention eight
Dipthongs of English language.
7. In what sense language is arbitrary?
8. Show the difference between creole and
pidgin.
9. Transcribe any four of the following:
August, Student,
University, Churches, Nature, Village
Part-C
Answer
any five questions: 10
× 5 = 50
10. Describe English consonant sounds
according to the places of articulation.
11. What is Assimilation? Discuss the
rules of Assimilation.
12. Write five techniques of word
formation.
13. What is Syntax? What are the major
syntactic processes in English? Describe them with diagrams.
14. Discuss critically the Nativist Theory
of language learning.
15. What do you know about the Monitor
Model Theory of Stephen Krashen? Why is it important in SLA?
16. Discuss different varieties of
socio-linguistics.
17. Mention the major characteristics of
language.
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