📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
496 MCQs461
_______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?
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ASynchrony
BDiachrony
CBoth a and b
DNone of these
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There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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A19
B20
C21
D22
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Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
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ADecember 7, 1928
BDecember 8, 1928
CDecember 9, 1928
DDecember 10, 1928
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Father of modern linguistics is ________?
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ANoam Chomsky
BFerdenand De Sassure
CNone of these
DBoth A and B
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The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
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ANoam Chomsky
BFerdenand De Sassure
CSteven Pinker
DEnoch Powell
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Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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ANoam Chomsky
BFerdenand De Sassure
CLeon Battista Alberti
DEnoch Powell
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A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
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ABoth b and c
BDiachrony/Synchrony
CAcceptable/Unacceptable
DN. O. T
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The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
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ASociolinguistics
BPsycholinguisctics
CBiolinguistics
DNone of these
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Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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AFerdenand de Sassure
BAlbert Chomsky
CNoam Chomsky
DNoah Webster
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There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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A22
B23
C24
D25