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_______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?
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16%
Synchrony
29%
Diachrony
49%
Both a and b
6%
None of these
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The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?
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12%
Psycho linguistics
34%
Sociolinguistics
51%
Comparative linguistics
4%
None of these
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Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with
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36%
The study of the structure of sounds and symbols
21%
The study of the structure of letters.
39%
The study of the structure of words
4%
None of these
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The elements of language are composed of, or can be broken into, distinct smaller linguistic units. What is it?
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24%
Displacement
22%
Duality
30%
Productivity
24%
Discreteness
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We acquire a language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes?
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15%
Arbitrariness
15%
Duality
59%
Cultural transmission
12%
Productivity
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A French tourist said to you "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville" and you don't understand. It means that you don't have a __________________.
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10%
linguistic performance
25%
linguistic competence
25%
linguistic knowledge
40%
both linguistic competence and linguistic knowledge are correct.
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_____________________is a processes of word formation whereby new words are formed by subtracting a root by deleting final syllable which is misunderstood as a suffix?
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21%
Compounding
27%
Portmanteau
28%
Derivation
24%
Backformation
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______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?
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37%
Compounding
32%
Portmanteau
18%
Derivation
12%
Backformation
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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 __________?
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24%
Complementary distribution
30%
Contrastive distribution
38%
Non__complementary distribution
8%
None of the above
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Harold Nicholson explained _________poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’.
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23%
Walt Whitman
33%
John Greenleaf Whittier
33%
T. S. Elliot
11%
E. E. Cummings
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Which of the following Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
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13%
Marvel
35%
Hughes
31%
Betjeman
21%
Larkin
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The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is called:
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18%
Letters to the Margret Paston
41%
Margret Paston to John Paston
35%
The Paston letters
6%
To John Paston
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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
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21%
Nature
30%
Epics
30%
Sonnets
18%
Nonsense
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Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
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24%
Sea scenes
32%
Rural Idyll
21%
War
23%
Innocent childhood
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Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
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25%
William Carlos Williams
28%
Emily Dickinson
34%
Gerard Manly Hopkins
14%
Robert Frost
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Which of the following is not an acceptable reason for including impossible or improbable events in a poem?
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25%
The poet is portraying things as the ought to be, not as they are
29%
They are necessary to make the plot work
36%
The poet is portraying things according to public opinion
11%
They add to the astonishment and excitement of the story
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A neoclassical poet would be most likely to compose a poem celebrating which of the following ideals ?
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17%
Passionate love
26%
Emotional restraint
37%
Revolution against tyranny
20%
Communion with the natural world
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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
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23%
The 12th
43%
The 14th
25%
The 17th
9%
The 13th
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Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
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21%
Sir Walter Scott
38%
William Butler Yeats
29%
Henry Longfellow
12%
Robert Burns