JNUEE 2020 Question Paper MA, M.Sc, MCA Linguistics

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Exam Date: 08-Oct-2020
Exam Time: 09:00-12:00
Examination: 1. Course Code - M.A./M.Sc./M.C.A.
2. Field of Study - LINGUISTICS (LINM)
SECTION 1 - SECTION 1

Question No.1 (Question Id - 66)
Identify the types of words for the following :
Darkroom, football, greenhouse, blackberry, airhead
(A) Simple words
(B) Complex words
(C) Compound words (Correct Answer)
(D) All of the above

Question No.2 (Question Id - 41)
Which direction should a screw is turned in order to tighten it into place ?

(A) Clockwise (Correct Answer)
(B) Anti-clockwise
(C) Any direction
(D) Counter clockwise

Question No.3 (Question Id - 20)
Onomatopoeia is :
(A) a combination of simile and metaphor
(B) imitation of natural sounds (Correct Answer)
(C) communication in gestures
(D) a branch of linguistics which studies personal names

Question No.4 (Question Id - 4)
What is the national language of Singapore ?
(A) Tamil
(B) English
(C) Malay (Correct Answer)
(D) Mandarin

Question No.5 (Question Id - 17)
“Blah-blah” is an example of :
(A) Assimilation
(B) Reduplication (Correct Answer)
(C) Negation
(D) Metathesis

Question No.6 (Question Id - 12)
As a language, the status of Hindi in India is :
(A) Territorial
(B) State
(C) Official (Correct Answer)
(D) National

Question No.7 (Question Id - 73)
Find the odd one out.
(A) Baby talk
(B) Child directed speech
(C) Motherese
(D) Mother Tongue (Correct Answer)

Question No.8 (Question Id - 55)
Given below are two statements :

Statement I:

Sign languages resemble spoken languages in all major aspects, showing that there are truly
universals of language.

Statement II:

Indian sign languages has its own grammar with Phonological, Morphological, Syntactic and
Semantic rules and a mental lexicon of sign all of which is encoded through a system of gestures.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true. (Correct Answer)
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
(C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
(D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.

Question No.9 (Question Id - 29)
Which one of these words mean ‘to omit’ ?

(A) Accept
(B) Except (Correct Answer)
(C) Asset
(D) Exccept

Question No.10 (Question Id - 3)
Which language is not listed in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution ?

(A) Bengali
(B) Rajbanshi (Correct Answer)
(C) Punjabi
(D) Sindhi

Question No.11 (Question Id - 24)
Which four acoustic events are involved in transmission and reception of sound ?

(A) Vibration of air particles; reception by ear; comprehension by brain; creation of sound
source.

(B) Creation of sound source; vibration of air particles; reception by ear; comprehension
by brain.

(Correct Answer)
(C) Creation of sound source; comprehension by brain; vibration of air particles; reception by
ear.

(D) Comprehension by brain; reception by ear; vibration of air particles; creation of sound
source.

Question No.12 (Question Id - 97)
The first full-fledged Open University in India is :

(A) Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
(B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad (Correct Answer)
(C) Nalanda Open University, Patna
(D) Vardhaman Mahavir Open University, Kota

Question No.13 (Question Id - 14)
Which one is not a language disorder among the following ?

(A) Aerophobia (Correct Answer)
(B) Aphasia
(C) Anomia
(D) Agraphia

Question No.14 (Question Id - 23)
Which one among the following is not a tonal language ?

(A) Manipuri
(B) Chinese

(C) Thai
(D) Assamese (Correct Answer)

Question No.15 (Question Id - 21)
Captcha is used to distinguish between a human or a machine agent. Which of the following is not a
captcha ? A. Face of an individual

B. labelling an image

C. Numeric calculation

D. Visually confusing alphabets

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A only (Correct Answer)
(B) A and B only
(C) B, C and D only
(D) A, B and C only

Question No.16 (Question Id - 45)
Which one is not a supra-segmental feature of language ?

(A) Stress
(B) Intonation
(C) Phoneme (Correct Answer)
(D) Tone

Question No.17 (Question Id - 16)
A language that is adopted as a common language among speakers, whose native languages are
different from each other, is known as :

(A) Lingua franca (Correct Answer)
(B) Official language
(C) Dialect
(D) Native language

Question No.18 (Question Id - 83)
The branch of Linguistics which studies speech sounds ?
(A) Syntax
(B) Morphology
(C) Phonetics (Correct Answer)
(D) Semantics

Question No.19 (Question Id - 72)
Which of the following is not the traditional teaching method for second language learning ?

(A) Grammar Translation Method
(B) Communicative Language Teaching (Correct Answer)
(C) Direct Method
(D) Audio-lingual method

Question No.20 (Question Id - 10)
The writing system of Urdu is :
(A) Right to left (Correct Answer)
(B) Left to right
(C) Top down & Bottom up
(D) None of above

Question No.21 (Question Id - 9)
To which of these language groups does English belong to ?

(A) Baltic
(B) Romance
(C) Germanic (Correct Answer)
(D) Slavonic

Question No.22 (Question Id - 48)

Which of the following does share the same script ?
(A) Marathi & Hindi (Correct Answer)
(B) Manipuri & Marathi
(C) Gujarati & Bengali
(D) Assamese & Telugu

Question No.23 (Question Id - 58)
The period between the offset of the plosive and the beginning of vocal fold vibration is known as :

(A) Offset glide
(B) Voice onset time (Correct Answer)
(C) Onset glide
(D) Delayed Nasal release

Question No.24 (Question Id - 57)
'Palatization' involves :

(A) The addition of a vowel [i] to the consonant
(B) The addition of a nasalized vowel [ã] to the consonant
(C) The addition of a [w] glide to the consonant
(D) The addition of [j] glide to the consonant (Correct Answer)

Question No.25 (Question Id - 30)

(A) (A) - an, (B) - the, (C) - NA, (D) - a (Correct Answer)
(B) (A) - a, (B) - a, (C) - the, (D) - an
(C) (A) - NA, (B) - an, (C) - a, (D) - the
(D) (A) - NA, (B) - an, (C) - the, (D) - a

Question No.26 (Question Id - 79)
Mandarin is majorly spoken in which country ?

(A) India
(B) Bhutan
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) China (Correct Answer)

Question No.27 (Question Id - 36)
Which of the following is a personal document with closed access ?

(A) Government ‘White Paper’
(B) Confidential Medical Records
(C) Household Account Book (Correct Answer)
(D) The Shares Register of a Business

Question No.28 (Question Id - 95)
Broca’s Aphasia is a language disorder which causes impairment in :

(A) Language production (Correct Answer)
(B) Language comprehension
(C) Reading and writing
(D) All of the above

Question No.29 (Question Id - 7)
The language of the Sacred Buddhist text was in :
(A) Sinhalese
(B) Pali (Correct Answer)
(C) Apabhramsha
(D) Tulu

Question No.30 (Question Id - 89)

(A) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(B) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(C) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(D) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I

Question No.31 (Question Id - 11)
In linguistics IPA stands for :
(A) International Psychological Association
(B) International Phonetic Alphabet (Correct Answer)
(C) Indian Phonetic Alphabet
(D) None of above

Question No.32 (Question Id - 50)
Which syllable receives the primary stress in ‘Academician’ ?
(A) First syllable
(B) Second syllable
(C) Third syllable
(D) Fourth syllable (Correct Answer)

Question No.33 (Question Id - 2)
The language policy of India is based on :
(A) Five language formula
(B) Four language formula
(C) Three language formula (Correct Answer)
(D) Two language formula

Question No.34 (Question Id - 44)
Which organ is not involved in the articulation of human speech sounds ?

(A) Chin (Correct Answer)
(B) Tongue
(C) Lips
(D) Glottis

Question No.35 (Question Id - 81)
Tulu language belongs to :
(A) Munda Language Family
(B) Indo-Aryan Language Family
(C) Dravidian Language Family (Correct Answer)
(D) Austro-Asiatic Language Family

Question No.36 (Question Id - 52)
Web accessibility refers to :
(A) Open source web technologies
(B) Standard way of writing web content
(C) Inclusiveness of deprived section for seamless access to web content (Correct
Answer)
(D) Online crowed sourcing community

Question No.37 (Question Id - 84)
Spectrograph is used as :

A. A component which creates a set of possible linguistic candidates in relation to particular input.

B. The geographical distribution of languages throughout the world.

C. To refer to the writing system of language on analogy with Phonology.

D. In acoustic phonetics which provides visual representation of the acoustic features of a sound in
utterance.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A and B Only
(B) A, B and C Only
(C) C Only
(D) D Only (Correct Answer)

Question No.38 (Question Id - 38)
Phonology deals with :

A. Analyzing the production of human speech sound regardless of language.

B. As the basis for future work in Morphology, Syntax, Discourse etc.

C. To determine which phonetic sounds are significant.

D. Explaining how the phonetic sounds are interpreted by a native speaker.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) A, B and C only
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.39 (Question Id - 78)
Given below are two statements :

Statement I:

Logographic systems are true writing systems in the sense that the symbols stands for words of a
language.

Statement II:

Chinese is an example of Logographic writing system.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true. (Correct Answer)
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
(C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
(D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.

Question No.40 (Question Id - 39)
__________ is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison
between the two.

(A) POS
(B) Metaphor (Correct Answer)
(C) Annotation
(D) Similes (Correct Answer)

Question No.41 (Question Id - 54)
If X and Y are married to each other C and D are brothers, C is the brother of X, then how is D
related to Y ?

(A) Brother
(B) Son
(C) Brother-in-law (Correct Answer)
(D) Son-in-law

Question No.42 (Question Id - 60)

(A) A and B Only
(B) A and C Only (Correct Answer)
(C) A and D Only
(D) All of the above

Question No.43 (Question Id - 51)
Machine learning is subset of the discipline :
(A) Machine Translation
(B) Artificial Intelligence (Correct Answer)
(C) Cross-lingual access
(D) Speech Technology

Question No.44 (Question Id - 34)
__________ refers to the system of symbols, sounds, meaning and rules for their combination that
constitutes the primary mode of communication among humans.

(A) Syntax
(B) Semantics
(C) Communication systems
(D) Language (Correct Answer)

Question No.45 (Question Id - 93)
Which of the following statements are true (T) ?

A. Tribal languages do not have grammar.

B. Khasi and Jaintia belongs to Austro-Asiatic language family.

C. The official language of the State Of Meghalaya is Khasi.

D. Telugu belongs to Indo-Aryan language family.

(A) A and B Only
(B) B and C Only
(C) C Only
(D) B Only (Correct Answer)

Question No.46 (Question Id - 62)
To be able to capture the sound of language :
(A) one must go for narrow transcription (Correct Answer)
(B) one must go for orthographic writing
(C) one must go for orthographic transcription
(D) one must follow two scripts

Question No.47 (Question Id - 82)
The term ‘homonym’ is :
(A) Different words that are pronounced the same, but may not be spelt the same

(B) The words should be different but have the same or nearly the same meaning

(C) The words that are opposite in meaning

(D) None of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.48 (Question Id - 33)
Choose the correct language pair having maximum divergence.

(A) English - Hindi (Correct Answer)
(B) Tamil - Hindi
(C) Hindi - Punjabi
(D) Hindi - Marathi

Question No.49 (Question Id - 53)
Given below are two statements :

Statement I:

Deaf children acquire sign language, much in the way that hearing children acquire a spoken
language.

Statement II:

Deaf children babble with their hands, just as hearing children babble with their vocal tracts.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true. (Correct Answer)
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
(C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
(D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.

Question No.50 (Question Id - 32)
Select the odd one out.
(A) Rule-based Machine Translation (RBMT)
(B) Natural Language Processing (NLP) (Correct Answer)
(C) Example Base Machine Translation (EBMT)
(D) Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)

Question No.51 (Question Id - 75)
Which of these are not the high tech method to study the relationship between brain and language ?

(A) CAT
(B) PET
(C) MRI
(D) CBI (Correct Answer)

Question No.52 (Question Id - 43)
Technologies of 21st century which will have great societal impact :

A. Big data

B. Corpus Linguistics

C. Data analysis

D. Artificial intelligence

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A and D
(B) B and C
(C) A, C and D (Correct Answer)
(D) C and D

Question No.53 (Question Id - 18)
Sindhi belongs to :
(A) Dravidian
(B) Indo-Aryan (Correct Answer)
(C) Persian
(D) Sumerian

Question No.54 (Question Id - 31)

(A) A - IV , B - III, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(B) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(C) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(D) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III

Question No.55 (Question Id - 37)
Pre-testing a questionnaire is useful for :
(A) Testing the functioning of computer & printers
(B) Finding out a particular topic
(C) To leave some respondents out of final sample
(D) Identifying any problems with the question wording & expected answer

(Correct Answer)

Question No.56 (Question Id - 100)

(A) A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV
(B) A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
(C) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III (Correct Answer)
(D) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II

Question No.57 (Question Id - 71)
Dyslexia is a learning disorder which causes impairment in :

(A) Reading (Correct Answer)
(B) Writing
(C) Some parts of speech
(D) All of the above

Question No.58 (Question Id - 59)
Languages that use pitch to contrast meanings of words are called :

(A) Stress languages
(B) Tone languages (Correct Answer)
(C) Syllabic languages
(D) Natural languages

Question No.59 (Question Id - 15)
Which one is correct among the following as far as breaking of the word ‘unacceptable’ into its
smallest meaningful parts is concerned ? Example : books : book+s :

(A) un+accept+able (Correct Answer)
(B) un+ac+cep+table
(C) un+ac+cept+ab+le
(D) unaccept+able

Question No.60 (Question Id - 87)

The term URL stands for :
(A) Universal Resource Locator
(B) Uniform Resource Locator (Correct Answer)
(C) Uncode Resource Locator
(D) User Resource Locator

Question No.61 (Question Id - 94)
If ‘ORANGE’ is coded as ‘691575’; how will ‘GRAPES’ be encoded ?

(A) 791751 (Correct Answer)
(B) 791752
(C) 791753
(D) 791754

Question No.62 (Question Id - 13)
Which one of the following shouldn’t be shared with any
one ?

A. Password

B. e-mail ID

C. Credit Card Pin

D. OTP

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A, B and C
(B) A, B and D
(C) A, C and D (Correct Answer)
(D) B, C and D

Question No.63 (Question Id - 77)

(A) A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV
(B) A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
(C) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III (Correct Answer)
(D) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II

Question No.64 (Question Id - 27)

(A) Samsung
(B) LG
(C) Apple (Correct Answer)
(D) Lenovo

Question No.65 (Question Id - 25)
The branch of Linguistics which deals with ‘the meaning of language in context’ is :

(A) Pragmatics (Correct Answer)
(B) Semiotics
(C) Semantics
(D) Relevant Theory

Question No.66 (Question Id - 76)

(A) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(B) A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV (Correct Answer)
(C) A - III, B - I, C - II, D - IV
(D) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I

Question No.67 (Question Id - 19)
The writer of the book “Language” is :
(A) H.A. Gleason
(B) Daniel Jones
(C) Leonard Bloomfield (Correct Answer)
(D) Charles Hockett

Question No.68 (Question Id - 70)
What types of questions are more appropriate for testing writing skills ?

(A) Multiple choice based
(B) Fill in the blanks
(C) Essay writing (Correct Answer)
(D) All of the above

Question No.69 (Question Id - 64)
Given below four statements :

A. All languages must have nouns and verbs

B. Majority of the languages in the world have at least three vowels

C. Languages share features when they are in contact

D. Languages are acquired through imitation only

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A, B, C Only (Correct Answer)
(B) A, B, D Only
(C) B, C, D Only
(D) All of the above

Question No.70 (Question Id - 88)
How many morphemes are there in the word "Decentralization" ?

(A) 7
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 5 (Correct Answer)

Question No.71 (Question Id - 5)
The English word, ‘NASA’ is an example of :

(A) Blending
(B) Acronym (Correct Answer)
(C) Backronym
(D) Initialism

Question No.72 (Question Id - 46)
The Peoples Linguistic Survey of India was conducted by :

(A) Suniti Kumar Chatterjee
(B) Sir Richard Temple
(C) Ganesh Devi (Correct Answer)
(D) G.A. Grierson

Question No.73 (Question Id - 61)

(A) A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
(B) A - III, B - II, C - IV, D - I
(C) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I (Correct Answer)
(D) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III

Question No.74 (Question Id - 40)
Find the word that has been spelt correctly.

(A) Goverment
(B) Government (Correct Answer)
(C) Gorment
(D) Govenment

Question No.75 (Question Id - 28)

(A) 5,000 (Correct Answer)
(B) 2,400
(C) 3,050
(D) 4,869

Question No.76 (Question Id - 65)

(A) Prefixes (Correct Answer)
(B) Suffixes
(C) Infixes
(D) All of the above

Question No.77 (Question Id - 98)
Given below are two phrases :

A. Free Coffee and minibar

B. Old man and woman

These are examples of :

(A) Cultural ambiguity
(B) Social ambiguity
(C) Structural ambiguity (Correct Answer)
(D) Phonological ambiguity

Question No.78 (Question Id - 22)
The criteria of assessment in SSC exam __________ changed. What __________ the new criterion
of assessment ? Fill in the blanks with correct options from the following :

(A) Have, are
(B) Has, is
(C) Have, is (Correct Answer)
(D) Has, are

Question No.79 (Question Id - 92)
Which hemisphere of the brain is mainly responsible for language ?

(A) Right hemisphere
(B) Left hemisphere (Correct Answer)
(C) Left, Front and Right Hemisphere
(D) None of the above

Question No.80 (Question Id - 74)

(A) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(B) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(C) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III
(D) A - I, B - II, C - III, D -IV

Question No.81 (Question Id - 68)
Similar sounding words like ‘see’ & ‘sea’; ‘know’ & ‘no’ are called :

(A) Homophones (Correct Answer)
(B) Homonyms
(C) Synonyms
(D) All of the above

Question No.82 (Question Id - 63)

(A) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)
(B) A - II, B - III, C - I, D - IV

(C) A - IV, B - I, C - III, D - II
(D) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III

Question No.83 (Question Id - 91)
Which article of the Indian Constitution provides for the provisions relating to freedom of speech &
expression ?

(A) 19 (Correct Answer)
(B) 36
(C) 18
(D) 14

Question No.84 (Question Id - 56)
An 'affricate' is a sound :

(A) That is produced like a stop
(B) That is produced through the nasal passage
(C) Which starts out rather like a plosive and finishes like a fricative (Correct Answer)
(D) That is produced without friction or turbulence

Question No.85 (Question Id - 69)
What types of questions are more appropriate for testing comprehension skill ?

(A) Paragraph writing
(B) Question answer of unknown passage (Correct Answer)
(C) Letter writing
(D) Fill in the blank

Question No.86 (Question Id - 85)
Given below are two statements :

Statement I:

All languages change through time.

Statement II:

The differences among languages are not due to biological reasons.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true. (Correct Answer)
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
(C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false.
(D) Statement I is false but Statement II is true.

Question No.87 (Question Id - 47)
How many Dravidian Languages are listed in the
constitution ?

(A) One
(B) Four (Correct Answer)
(C) Two
(D) Five

Question No.88 (Question Id - 86)
Where is Xhosa language spoken ?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Russia
(C) South Africa (Correct Answer)
(D) North America

Question No.89 (Question Id - 96)
Find the odd one out.

(A) Table and chair (Correct Answer)
(B) Tall and short
(C) Hot and Cold

(D) Big and small

Question No.90 (Question Id - 80)
What is the past participle marker in English ?
(A) -en (Correct Answer)
(B) -er
(C) -ing
(D) -est

Question No.91 (Question Id - 42)
The vowel ‘a’ in the word ‘cane’ is :
(A) Diphthong (Correct Answer)
(B) Long vowel
(C) Short vowel
(D) Vowel Glide

Question No.92 (Question Id - 1)
How many languages are approximately spoken in the
world ?

(A) 600
(B) 6000 (Correct Answer)
(C) 16000
(D) 26000

Question No.93 (Question Id - 6)
The first Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) was conducted by :

(A) G.A. Grierson (Correct Answer)
(B) B.H. Krishna Murthy
(C) D.N. Bhatt
(D) Roman Jacobson

Question No.94 (Question Id - 49)
The major source of user-generated content on web is through :

(A) Book Reading
(B) Social Media (Correct Answer)
(C) Online Libraries
(D) Community Groups

Question No.95 (Question Id - 35)
Who among these is an ancient linguist of India ?
(A) Rabindra NathTagore
(B) Patanjali (Correct Answer)
(C) Noam Chomsky
(D) Tej K Bhatia

Question No.96 (Question Id - 99)
What does a repertoire mean ?

(A) A term used in morphology to refer a ‘morph’.
(B) A term sometimes used in generative linguistics to refer what is known as deep structure.
(C) A term used in sociolinguistics to refer the range of languages or varieties of a
language available for use by a speaker.

(Correct Answer)
(D) A term used in the theory of speech acts.

Question No.97 (Question Id - 8)
Who is the author of “Ashtadhyayi”, a grammar book written on Sanskrit ?

(A) Panini (Correct Answer)
(B) Patanjali
(C) Bhartrihari
(D) Yask

Question No.98 (Question Id - 26)
Which of these words can be used as a lexeme heading in a dictionary ?

(A) Giving
(B) Gave
(C) Give (Correct Answer)
(D) Gives

Question No.99 (Question Id - 90)
The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is located in :

(A) Mumbai
(B) Pune (Correct Answer)
(C) New Delhi
(D) Kolkata

Question No.100 (Question Id - 67)
Identify the number of syllables in the word ‘uninterrupted’.
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five (Correct Answer)

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