June 2022 QP Flashcards
What is ILCI?
Indian languages corpora development project funded by TDIL
TDILL programme of the Government of india supports
Technology development for indian languages
IPA
International phonetic Alphabet
Mean Length of Utterance was introduced by _____________
Roger Brown
MLU is a measure which computes the length of an utterance
MLU was studied by Brown using three children as test subject.This MLU is calculated by collecting a language sample of 100 utterances and dividing the total number of morphemes by this number of utterances.
The merging of forms using the loss of inflection is called as
Syncretism
The sound change moves through the vocabulary of a language called
Lexical Diffusion
______________ Dictionary that provides information about the major stock of vocabulary of a language.
Reference dictionary
Dictionary making is called
lexicography
who pioneered dialect geography?
George Wenker and Ferdinand Werde
Computer procesing of textual data is an example of
Unimodal procesing
EGIDS means
Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale
In Nigerian language the suffix go/ko is used to mark pronominal possession eg loo-go’
they are allomorphs
Sound Symbolism
the Constituent sounds of a word suggest its meaning
NAme Washoe, Koko. Nim and Kanzi refer to
Apes who learned sign language
Who first used the term Indo European?
Thomas Young
Place and manner of articulation of the sound /g/?
voiced unaspirated velar stop
what are Chomsky hierarchy of formal grammar ?
type 0,1,2,3
Chomsky’s Hierarchy has four distinct levels – Type 0, known as Unrestricted Grammar; Type 1, known as Context Sensitive Grammar; Type 2, known as Context Free Grammar; and Type 3, known as Regular Grammar.
Parts of speech according to Sanskrit grammar
nama, Akhyata, upasarga, nipata
Zone od Proximal Development (ZPD) was introduced by
Lev Vygotsky
Article______ of Indian Constitution states that official language of the union will be Hindi in Devanagari script
article 343
Deixis refers to
both spatial and temporal aspects
what is the circulatory phenomenon in reference to dictionary making?
the meaning of a single word is expressed in another single word both of which are non descriptive.
what is the type of code used in a relatively formal and educated situation _________
Elaborated code
The Linguistic system of an individual speaker is called
Idiolect
What is abhidha ?
It is a direct meaning of the word
The past tense form “went” is an example of _________ morpheme
suppletive
what form of verb can occur on its own in a sentence and must be marked for tense?
finite verb
when was “Two models of Grammatical description” seminal article published?
1954
who wrote “two models of Grammatical description” aritcle?
C.F Hockett
Nihali language spoken in Central India is a creole (T/F)
true
The Phonemic Principle article written by M.Swadesh was published in
the phonemic principle -1934
ask➡️ aks is example of
metathesis
CDS is synonymous with
Motherese
Capturing of near equivalent sense of source text (ST) by target text (TT) is known as
Fidelity