Organisation : Central Board Of Secondary Education
Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : Linguistics
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016
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Linguistics Model Question Paper :
Note :
** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
Related : Central Board Of Secondary Education NET English Paper II Model Question : www.pdfquestion.in/10471.html
1. No particular linguistic form is naturally associated with any particular meaning, and the pairing that exists for meaning in each case is
(1) Universal
(2) Sound-induced
(3) Arbitrary
(4) Meaning-induced
2. A property of human language whereby it can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situation of the speaker is called
(1) Arbitrariness
(2) Double articulation
(3) Displacement
(4) Complementarity
3. Assertion (I) : When linguists speak of rules, they are not referring to prescriptive rules.
Assertion (II) : Linguists try to formulate rules when they analyze language, rules that describe the actual language of some group of speakers and not some hypothetical language that speakers “should” use.
Codes :
(1) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(2) (I) is true, but (II) is false.
(3) (I) is false, but (II) is true.
(4) Both (I) and (II) are true.
4. Any language with a reasonably large number of speakers will develop
(1) into a homogenous system with no varieties to emerge.
(2) into regionally or socially distinctive varieties of language, identified by a particular set of words and grammatical structures.
(3) into an artefact.
(4) into a restricted code.
5. Words that sound alike are called
(1) Homographs
(2) Homonyms
(3) Homophones
(4) Homorganic
6. Languages can be described as “agglutinating”, or “isolating” or “inflecting” depending on their.
(i) Phonetic properties
(ii) Syllogis pattern
(iii) morphosyntactic structures
(iv) written forms and writing systems.
Codes :
(1) All four are true.
(2) All four are false.
(3) (i) and (iv) are false and (ii) and (iii) are true.
(4) (i), (ii) & (iii) are true and (iv) is false.
7. Match the following :
List – I List – II
I. William Dwight Whitney A. British School
II. Louis Hjemslev B. Prague School
III. Henry Sweet C. American School
IV. Nikolai Trubetzkoy D. Copenhagen School
8. The grammatical category of ‘round’ in the sentence ‘the car went round the corner’ is
(1) Noun
(2) Adjective
(3) Verb
(4) Preposition
9. Idiolect can be referred to as a linguistic system of a/an
(1) Community
(2) Caste
(3) Profession
(4) Individual
10. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II
List – I List – II
(a) function of language in order to achieve a result in an addressee.
(i) Conative
(b) Conveying emotional content and identity, in terms of personality or individual creativity.
(ii) Expressive
(c) Function of higher language for describing ordinary language.
(iii) Metalingual
(d) Relationship between the entity in the external world
(iv) Referential and the linguistic expression which relates to it.
11. If in a compound no constituent functions as the head, it is called a/an
(1) Exocentric compound
(2) Endocentric compound
(3) Karmadharaya compound
(4) Tatpurusha compound
12. [f] and [ph] are distinct in terms of their
(i) places of articulation
(ii) manners of articulation
(iii) voicing patterns
(iv) phonemic status in the English language
Codes :
(1) (i) & (ii) are true, (iii) & (iv) are false.
(2) All are true except (iii).
(3) All are false except (iv).
(4) All are false.
13. Assertion (I) : Back sounds are articulated in the back part of the mouth.
Assertion (II) : Back sounds are articulated with the back part of the tongue.
Codes :
(1) Both (I) and (II) are correct.
(2) (I) is correct, but (II) is wrong.
(3) (I) is wrong, but (II) is correct.
(4) Both (I) and (II) are wrong.
14. Assertion (I) : Vowel sounds are high sonority sounds because of resonances provided by the air column in the oral chamber.
Assertion (II) : Vowel sounds are characterized by a combinations of fundamental tune and formats.
Codes :
(1) (I) is true & (II) is false.
(2) (II) is true and (I) is false.
(3) Both are true.
(4) Both are false.
15. Assertion (I) : The process of phonation determines the pitch of voice.
Assertion (II) : Phonation is dependent on the elasticity of vocal cords as well as the aerodynamics of Bernoulli’s effect.
Codes :
(1) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(2) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(3) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(4) (I) is false and (II) is true.