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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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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Dictionary making is called
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lexicography
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who pioneered dialect geography?
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George Wenker and Ferdinand Werde
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Computer procesing of textual data is an example of
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Unimodal procesing
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EGIDS means
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Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale
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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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Sound Symbolism
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the Constituent sounds of a word suggest its meaning
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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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Who first used the term Indo European?
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Thomas Young
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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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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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Parts of speech according to Sanskrit grammar
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nama, Akhyata, upasarga, nipata
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Zone od Proximal Development (ZPD) was introduced by
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Lev Vygotsky
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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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Deixis refers to
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both spatial and temporal aspects
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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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The Linguistic system of an individual speaker is called
Idiolect
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What is abhidha ?
It is a direct meaning of the word
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The past tense form "went" is an example of _________ morpheme
suppletive
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what form of verb can occur on its own in a sentence and must be marked for tense?
finite verb
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when was "Two models of Grammatical description" seminal article published?
1954
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who wrote "two models of Grammatical description" aritcle?
C.F Hockett
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Nihali language spoken in Central India is a creole (T/F)
true
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The Phonemic Principle article written by M.Swadesh was published in
the phonemic principle -1934
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ask➡️ aks is example of
metathesis
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CDS is synonymous with
Motherese
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Capturing of near equivalent sense of source text (ST) by target text (TT) is known as
Fidelity
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What does laksana mean ?
Sentence that Abandon its own sense
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______________ of Language study aims at mapping the change in language.
Diachronic study
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What is antecedent?
A noun or non noun constituent for which a pronoun stands.
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In the sentence ' Raju looked at himself in the mirror ' what is the antecedent?
Raju
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Research paper " where is morphology?" Was published in
(1980/1981/1982/1983)
Where is morphology by S.R Anderson in 1982.
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A 'squish' is a term refers to a continuum along which ,_______ items can be placed
Lexical
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Squish was introduced by American linguist
John Robert Ross
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What is primary onomatopoeia?
The primary onomatopoeia is the direct imitation of a sound produced by an object
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What is secondary onomatopoeia?
secondary onomatopoeia comes from the sound combination produced by the specific characteristic of an object and its movement.
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Ideophone
certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation to express an action, movement,manner, or property or sensation.
Eg: zig zag
Twinkle
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In Pre machine learning phase of AI , which programming languages were popularly used?
Proolog is a logic computer language (programming)
Lisp is a the second-oldest high-level computer language after FORTRAN
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Language revitalization example
Hawaiian (spoken in the USA) and Maori (spoken in New Zealand).
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How can language be revitalized?
language documentation and mentor-apprenticeship programs to immersion language schools.
Knowledge text generation
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What is linguistic landscaping?
Linguistic landscape studies is the investigation of displayed language in a particular space, generally through the analysis of advertisements, billboards, and other signs
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Variables in sociolinguistics studies?
class, age, sex, ethnic group or contextual style.
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What is feeding and bleeding order ?
Feeding: the application of A creates the opportunity for B to apply
Bleeding: the application of A prevents B from being able to apply
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In Generative Phonology by Paul kiparsky he introduced two ordering
What are they?
Feeding and bleeding
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Important rubrics of speaking are
Setting and end
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What is EGIDS?
The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), developed by Lewis and Simons (2010), measures a language's status in terms of endangerment or development.
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The sentence "The President could not ratify the treaty" can be labelled as
[The President] np [could]m [not ratify the treaty]vp
[The President]np [could not]M [ratify the treaty]vp
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Prato Indo European (PIE) related excavations at ________ Huyuk in Turkey was conducted by James_______
Catal Huyuk- Proto Indo European- James Mellart
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James Mellart found evidences of H________,F________,M__________,T_________
Hunting, fertility rites,mud bricks,trade
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Difference between dialect and a language is generally made on the grounds of
Socio_______Location and Linguistics________
Lexical _________and Phonological_________
Dialect and language difference is made based on
Socio-Graphical location
Linguistic features
Lexical database
Phonological properties
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who outlined the key features of maxims of conversation?
Paul Grice- Outlined the 4 maxims of converstation
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what are the four maxims of conversations?
Quality
Quantity
relation
manner
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Metaphor is relation between two conceptual domains ____________&_____________.
Source Domain and Target Doamin
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what are function words?
prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, grammatical articles or particles
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Who authored "The theory and practice of translation"
Eugene Nida and Taber Charles (1982)
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Binary semantic Features are those which come naturally in pairs
[Male] and [female]
[animate] and [inanimate]
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The word 'cook' is an example of
A noun and a verb
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who introduced politeness principle?
Geoffrey leech
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What are six conversational maxims of Politeness principle?
tact
generosity
Approbation
Modesty
agreement
sympathy
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What are the two notable dichotomies proposed by F.de.Saussure
Langue and Parole
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
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what is Paradigmatic relation ?
Paradigmatic relation describes a substitution relationship between words of the same word class.
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what is syntagmatic relation?
Syntagmatic relation illustrates the linear relationship / position between the words in a sentence.
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Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
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
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A bidirectional bilingual machine Translation system works for____________ and ___________language.
Target and source language
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what are the three main types of machine translation?
Rule-Based Machine Translation (RBMT)
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)
Neural Machine Translation (NMT).
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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?
bangani and kurux
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What are the typical areal features characteristics of Indian Language families?
Retroflexion
reduplication
Echo words
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for language acquisition _________&__________ are needed?
Input and interaction
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match
a) Bhartrhari - S_________
b) Dinnaga - A___________
c) Kumarilabhatta - A_____________
d) Prabhakara Misra- A________________
a) Bhartrhari - Sphotavada
b) Dinnaga - Apohavada
c) Kumarilabhatta - Abhihitanvayavada
d) Prabhakara Misra- Anvitabhidhanavada
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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
Bloomfield - menomini morphophonemics
Morris Hale - Prolegomena to a theory of word formation
Zelling Harris - From morpheme to utterance
David Pesetsky - Morphology and logical form
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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
(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
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Language Types
(a) Isolating language
(b) Agglutinating language
(c) Inflectional language
(d) Polysynthetic language
Language Types
(a) Isolating language- Vietnamese
(b) Agglutinating language- Turkish
(c) Inflectional language- Sanskrit
(d) Polysynthetic language- Inuktitut
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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
(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
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a)h__ea__t
(b) s__ue
(c) b-oa-t
(d) c-o-t
sue- . high, back, rounded
(b) heat -II. high, front, unrounded
(c) cot- III. low, back, unrounded
(d) boat IV. mid, back, rounded
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a) Part of speech annotation
(b) Word sense annotation
(c) Syntactic annotation
(d) Orthographic annotation
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
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IPA Symbols
Description
(a) ?
(b) x
(c) η
(d) +
IPA Symbols
Description
(a) ? - Glottal stop
(b) x - voiceless palatal stop
(c) η - retroflex nasal
(d) + - voiced palatal
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I. Dravidian
II. Austro Asiatic
III. Tibeto Burman
IV. Indo Aryan
I. Dravidian - Irula
II. Austro Asiatic- Khasi
III. Tibeto Burman- Memba
IV. Indo Aryan- Bangani
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(a) UPSG
(b) CSG
(c) CFG
(d) RG
(a) UPSG- 0
(b) CSG-1
(c) CFG- 2
(d) RG-3
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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
labial
dental
palatal
velar
glottal
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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
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
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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
levels of representation of concepts in cognitive linguistic framework
The world 'out there'
perception
conception
linguistic meaning
form
