June 2022 QP Flashcards

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What is ILCI?

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Indian languages corpora development project funded by TDIL

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TDILL programme of the Government of india supports

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Technology development for indian languages

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IPA

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International phonetic Alphabet

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4
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Mean Length of Utterance was introduced by _____________

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Roger Brown

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MLU is a measure which computes the length of an utterance

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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.

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The merging of forms using the loss of inflection is called as

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Syncretism

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The sound change moves through the vocabulary of a language called

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Lexical Diffusion

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______________ Dictionary that provides information about the major stock of vocabulary of a language.

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Reference dictionary

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9
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Dictionary making is called

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lexicography

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10
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who pioneered dialect geography?

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George Wenker and Ferdinand Werde

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11
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Computer procesing of textual data is an example of

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Unimodal procesing

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12
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EGIDS means

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Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale

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13
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In Nigerian language the suffix go/ko is used to mark pronominal possession eg loo-go’

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they are allomorphs

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14
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Sound Symbolism

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the Constituent sounds of a word suggest its meaning

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15
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NAme Washoe, Koko. Nim and Kanzi refer to

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Apes who learned sign language

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16
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Who first used the term Indo European?

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Thomas Young

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17
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Place and manner of articulation of the sound /g/?

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voiced unaspirated velar stop

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18
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what are Chomsky hierarchy of formal grammar ?
type 0,1,2,3

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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.

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19
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Parts of speech according to Sanskrit grammar

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nama, Akhyata, upasarga, nipata

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20
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Zone od Proximal Development (ZPD) was introduced by

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Lev Vygotsky

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21
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Article______ of Indian Constitution states that official language of the union will be Hindi in Devanagari script

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article 343

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22
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Deixis refers to

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both spatial and temporal aspects

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23
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what is the circulatory phenomenon in reference to dictionary making?

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the meaning of a single word is expressed in another single word both of which are non descriptive.

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what is the type of code used in a relatively formal and educated situation _________

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Elaborated code

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25
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The Linguistic system of an individual speaker is called

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Idiolect

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26
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What is abhidha ?

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It is a direct meaning of the word

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27
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The past tense form “went” is an example of _________ morpheme

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suppletive

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28
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what form of verb can occur on its own in a sentence and must be marked for tense?

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finite verb

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29
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when was “Two models of Grammatical description” seminal article published?

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1954

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30
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who wrote “two models of Grammatical description” aritcle?

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C.F Hockett

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31
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Nihali language spoken in Central India is a creole (T/F)

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true

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32
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The Phonemic Principle article written by M.Swadesh was published in

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the phonemic principle -1934

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33
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ask➡️ aks is example of

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metathesis

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34
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CDS is synonymous with

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Motherese

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35
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Capturing of near equivalent sense of source text (ST) by target text (TT) is known as

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Fidelity

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36
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What does laksana mean ?

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Sentence that Abandon its own sense

37
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______________ of Language study aims at mapping the change in language.

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Diachronic study

38
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What is antecedent?

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A noun or non noun constituent for which a pronoun stands.

39
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In the sentence ‘ Raju looked at himself in the mirror ‘ what is the antecedent?

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Raju

40
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Research paper “ where is morphology?” Was published in
(1980/1981/1982/1983)

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Where is morphology by S.R Anderson in 1982.

41
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A ‘squish’ is a term refers to a continuum along which ,_______ items can be placed

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Lexical

42
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Squish was introduced by American linguist

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John Robert Ross

43
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What is primary onomatopoeia?

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The primary onomatopoeia is the direct imitation of a sound produced by an object

44
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What is secondary onomatopoeia?

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secondary onomatopoeia comes from the sound combination produced by the specific characteristic of an object and its movement.

45
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Ideophone

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certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation to express an action, movement,manner, or property or sensation.
Eg: zig zag
Twinkle

46
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In Pre machine learning phase of AI , which programming languages were popularly used?

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Proolog is a logic computer language (programming)
Lisp is a the second-oldest high-level computer language after FORTRAN

47
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Language revitalization example

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Hawaiian (spoken in the USA) and Maori (spoken in New Zealand).

48
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How can language be revitalized?

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language documentation and mentor-apprenticeship programs to immersion language schools.
Knowledge text generation

49
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What is linguistic landscaping?

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Linguistic landscape studies is the investigation of displayed language in a particular space, generally through the analysis of advertisements, billboards, and other signs

50
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Variables in sociolinguistics studies?

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class, age, sex, ethnic group or contextual style.

51
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What is feeding and bleeding order ?

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Feeding: the application of A creates the opportunity for B to apply
Bleeding: the application of A prevents B from being able to apply

52
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In Generative Phonology by Paul kiparsky he introduced two ordering
What are they?

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Feeding and bleeding

53
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Important rubrics of speaking are

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Setting and end

54
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What is EGIDS?

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The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), developed by Lewis and Simons (2010), measures a language’s status in terms of endangerment or development.

55
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The sentence “The President could not ratify the treaty” can be labelled as

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[The President] np [could]m [not ratify the treaty]vp
[The President]np [could not]M [ratify the treaty]vp

56
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Prato Indo European (PIE) related excavations at ________ Huyuk in Turkey was conducted by James_______

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Catal Huyuk- Proto Indo European- James Mellart

57
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James Mellart found evidences of H________,F________,M__________,T_________

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Hunting, fertility rites,mud bricks,trade

58
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Difference between dialect and a language is generally made on the grounds of
Socio_______Location and Linguistics________
Lexical _________and Phonological_________

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Dialect and language difference is made based on
Socio-Graphical location
Linguistic features
Lexical database
Phonological properties

59
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who outlined the key features of maxims of conversation?

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Paul Grice- Outlined the 4 maxims of converstation

60
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what are the four maxims of conversations?

A

Quality
Quantity
relation
manner

61
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Metaphor is relation between two conceptual domains ____________&_____________.

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Source Domain and Target Doamin

62
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what are function words?

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prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, grammatical articles or particles

63
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Who authored “The theory and practice of translation”

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Eugene Nida and Taber Charles (1982)

64
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Binary semantic Features are those which come naturally in pairs

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[Male] and [female]
[animate] and [inanimate]

65
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The word ‘cook’ is an example of

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A noun and a verb

66
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who introduced politeness principle?

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Geoffrey leech

67
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What are six conversational maxims of Politeness principle?

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tact
generosity
Approbation
Modesty
agreement
sympathy

68
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What are the two notable dichotomies proposed by F.de.Saussure

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Langue and Parole
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations

69
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what is Paradigmatic relation ?

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Paradigmatic relation describes a substitution relationship between words of the same word class.

70
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what is syntagmatic relation?

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Syntagmatic relation illustrates the linear relationship / position between the words in a sentence.

71
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Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic

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syntagmatic relation are abstract – concept, edit – film, team – sport, and occur – phenomenon; and examples of paradigmatic relation encompass adjust – modify, edit – revise, assent – agreement, abstract – summary, and edit – revise

72
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A bidirectional bilingual machine Translation system works for____________ and ___________language.

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Target and source language

73
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what are the three main types of machine translation?

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Rule-Based Machine Translation (RBMT)
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)
Neural Machine Translation (NMT).

74
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As per the Census 2011 report of the Government of India following list of languages are not a part of non scheduled languages?

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bangani and kurux

75
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What are the typical areal features characteristics of Indian Language families?

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Retroflexion
reduplication
Echo words

76
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for language acquisition _________&__________ are needed?

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Input and interaction

77
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match
a) Bhartrhari - S_________
b) Dinnaga - A___________
c) Kumarilabhatta - A_____________
d) Prabhakara Misra- A________________

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a) Bhartrhari - Sphotavada
b) Dinnaga - Apohavada
c) Kumarilabhatta - Abhihitanvayavada
d) Prabhakara Misra- Anvitabhidhanavada

78
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author Name of Article
Leonard Bloomfield - m____________ morphophonemics
Morris Hale - _____________ to a theory of word formation
Zelling Harris - From morpheme to __________
David Pesetsky - Morphology and _______ form

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Bloomfield - menomini morphophonemics
Morris Hale - Prolegomena to a theory of word formation
Zelling Harris - From morpheme to utterance
David Pesetsky - Morphology and logical form

79
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(a) The social differentiation of English in Norwich
(b) The interplay of social and linguistic factors in Panama
(c) The social stratification of English in New York City
(d) Belfast: Change and variation in an urban vernacular

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(a) The social differentiation of English in Norwich- Peter Trudgill
(b) The interplay of social and linguistic factors in Panama- Henrietta cedergen
(c) The social stratification of English in New York City- William Labov
(d) Belfast: Change and variation in an urban vernacular- James Milrooy and Lesley Milroy

80
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Language Types

(a) Isolating language
(b) Agglutinating language
(c) Inflectional language
(d) Polysynthetic language

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Language Types

(a) Isolating language- Vietnamese
(b) Agglutinating language- Turkish
(c) Inflectional language- Sanskrit
(d) Polysynthetic language- Inuktitut

81
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(a) The rise and fall of languages
(b) Dying words: Endan gered languages, and what they have to tell us
(c) Can threatened languages be saved?
(d) One thousand languages: Living, Endangered and lost

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(a) The rise and fall of languages - R.M.W Dixon
(b) Dying words: Endan gered languages, and what they have to tell us - N.Evans
(c) Can threatened languages be saved? J. Fishman
(d) One thousand languages: Living, Endangered and lost - P.Austin

82
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a)h__ea__t
(b) s__ue
(c) b-oa-t
(d) c-o-t

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sue- . high, back, rounded
(b) heat -II. high, front, unrounded
(c) cot- III. low, back, unrounded
(d) boat IV. mid, back, rounded

83
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a) Part of speech annotation

(b) Word sense annotation

(c) Syntactic annotation

(d) Orthographic annotation

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Definition of annotation

  1. Tagging characters in a text- Orthographic annotation

II. Tagging sentences in a text- Syntactic annotation

III. Tagging word meaning in a text- word sense annotation
IV. Tagging part of speech of words- parts of speech annotation

84
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IPA Symbols

Description

(a) ?

(b) x

(c) η

(d) +

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IPA Symbols

Description

(a) ? - Glottal stop

(b) x - voiceless palatal stop

(c) η - retroflex nasal

(d) + - voiced palatal

85
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I. Dravidian
II. Austro Asiatic
III. Tibeto Burman
IV. Indo Aryan

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I. Dravidian - Irula
II. Austro Asiatic- Khasi
III. Tibeto Burman- Memba
IV. Indo Aryan- Bangani

86
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(a) UPSG
(b) CSG
(c) CFG
(d) RG

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(a) UPSG- 0
(b) CSG-1
(c) CFG- 2
(d) RG-3

87
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. Arrange the places of articulation of consonants in correct sequential order from front to back

(a) Glottal
(b) Palatal
(c) Labial
d) Velar
(e) Dental

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labial
dental
palatal
velar
glottal

88
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Arrange the nasal segments in a sequential order (front to back direction in place of articulation)

(a) Palatal nasal

(b) Velar nasal

(c) Dental nasal

(d) Bilabial nasal

(e) Retroflex nasal

A

Arrange the nasal segments in a sequential order (front to back direction in place of articulation)

 Bilabial nasal
 Dental nasal
 Retroflex nasal
 palatal nasal
 velar nasal
89
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Arrange the levels of representation of concepts in cognitive linguistic framework (a) Conception

(b) Linguistic meaning

(c) Form

(d) The world ‘out there’

(e) Perception

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levels of representation of concepts in cognitive linguistic framework

The world ‘out there’
perception
conception
linguistic meaning
form