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Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called
A
Transference
B
Duality of structure
C
Recursiveness
D
Displacement
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Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called
Transference
Duality of structure
Recursiveness
Displacement
Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called
Transference
Duality of structure
Recursiveness
Displacement
How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed?
None of the above
Only one
Two
Innumerable
How many stressed are generally marked
Four
Only one
Two
Three
How many nasal sounds are there in the Malayalam language?
Five
Two
Three
Four
How many nasal sounds are there in the English Language?
Five
Two
Three
Four
How many classes of morphemes can be identified in a language
Four
Only one
Two
Three
Find the odd one out
Herman Gundert
Ferdinand de Saussure
Edward Sapir
Leonard Bloomfield
Certain morphemes have more than one meaning and can be understood in more than one way. They are called
Homonyms
Allophones
Homophones
Homographs
Assimilation is mainly of.........types
Only one
Four
Two
Three
According to the position of lips vowels can be divided into
Tense vowels &lax vowels
Round vowels & unrounded vowels
Front vowels & back vowels
High vowels & low vowels
According to the part of the tongue that is raised, vowels can be classified into
Tense vowels &lax vowels
Round vowels & unrounded vowels
Front vowels & back vowels
High vowels & low vowels
According to the height to which the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into
Tense vowels &lax vowels
Round vowels & unrounded vowels
Front vowels & back vowels
High vowels & low vowels
A unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme
Pitch
Syllable
Stress
Intonation
A syllabic division is marked with
A vertical bar
A slash
An arrow mark
A hyphen
A person who has the ability to use only one language is called
None of the above
Monologue
Monolingual
Monologal
A person who can use two languages is called
Duo-langual
Biolingual
Bilingual
Duo-lingual
A person who can use more than two languages
Poly-langual
Multilingual
Poly-lingual
Bilingual
A minimal meaningful unit in the grammatical system of a language is
Allomorph
Syllable
Phoneme
Morpheme
A collection of similar Idiolect make up
Slang
Dialect
Idiolects
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