English Literature Mcqs

The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?

A. Complementary distribution
B. Contrastive distribution
C. Non__complementary distribution
D. None of the abovE.

The pronunciation of English practised by the educated people at the public schools came to be called____________?

A. Standard English
B. Received Pronunciation
C. Standard pronunciation
D. Recognized pronunciation

The IPA came into existence in the year__________?

A. 1889
B. 1998
C. 1989
D. 1888

Words with more than three syllables are called __________words?

A. Multisyllabic
B. Disyllabic
C. Try syllabic
D. Polysyllabic

The word ‘examination’ is a ____________word?A. Monosyllabic
B. Disyllabic
C. Try syllabic
D. Polysyllabic

The word ‘examination’ is a Polysyllabic word. The basic unit of speech is syllable.one vowel sound is one syllable. words which have more than 3 syllables is called poly syllabic word.
Ex: examination, contamination, dictionary, independence, discrimination. etc

 

The /k/ in ‘kill’ and ‘skill’ are ________________?

A. Allophones
B. Allomorphs
C. Morpheme variants
D. Minimal pairs

The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?

A. Allophones
B. Allomorphs
C. Morpheme variants
D. Minimal pairs

Which among the following are the main properties of grammar ?

A. To account by its rules for the infinite sentences of a language
B. To be explicit about the grammaticality of sentences
C. To predict all and the only possible grammatical sentences of a language
D. All the above.

The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?

A. Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures”
B. Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax”
C. Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language”
D. Both “a’ & “b”

The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are__________________?

A. Leonard Bloomfield & Noam Chomsky
B. Leonard Bloomfield & Max__Muller
C. Max__Muller & Herman Gundert
D. Edward Sapir & Ferdinand de Saussure