Language and Linguistics Objective Question and Answer
Language and Linguistics MCQ Multiple Choice Questions - Page 3 for Practice
61. The final /l/ in the words bottle, cattle and little are examples of
Correct Answer is: Syllabic consonants
62. The final /m/ in the word Prism is an instance of
Correct Answer is: Syllabic consonants
63. The final /n/ in the words sudden and mutton are
Correct Answer is: Syllabic consonants
64. The final /t/ in walked is
Correct Answer is: Possessive morpheme
65. The final consonants /s/, /z/ and /iz/ in the words cats, dogs and boxes are instances of
Correct Answer is: Allophones
66. The final sounds /t/, /d/, and /id/ in the words packed, bagged and patted are instances of
Correct Answer is: Allophones
67. The following sound influencing the preceding one is an instance of................assimilation
Correct Answer is: Regressive
68. The form dog is a............morpheme
Correct Answer is: A free morpheme
69. The ing in sleeping is an example of
Correct Answer is: Bound morpheme
70. The initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word little are
Correct Answer is: Allophones
71. The initial consonant in Young is a.........sound
Correct Answer is: Palatal
72. The initial sound in chair and jam are examples for
Correct Answer is: Affricates
73. The initial sounds in the words ship, church and judge; ar examples for
Correct Answer is: Palato-alveolar
74. The IPA came into existence in the year
Correct Answer is: 1889
75. The IPA was established by a group of
Correct Answer is: European Phoneticians
76. The is a processes of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form
Correct Answer is: Derivation
77. The –ish in the word childish is
Correct Answer is: An adjective forming morpheme
78. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called
Correct Answer is: Register
79. The Musical Theory of the origin of language was advanced by
Correct Answer is: Otto Jespersen
80. The older term used to designate the study of languages is
Correct Answer is: Philology
81. The –or in actor is
Correct Answer is: Noun forming morpheme
82. The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in
Correct Answer is: Complementary distribution
83. The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of..............assimilation
Correct Answer is: Progressive
84. The present-tense form of the verb read and its past-tense which is pronounced as red is an example of
Correct Answer is: Homonyms
85. The process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another
Correct Answer is: Assimilation
86. The processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix.
Correct Answer is: Backformation
87. The processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words.
Correct Answer is: Portmanteau
88. The processes of word formation wherein one or more syllables are removed from an existing long words
Correct Answer is: Clipping
89. The processes of word formation wherein two or more existing words are simply combined.
Correct Answer is: Compounding
90. The pronunciation of English practised by the educated people at the public schools came to be called
