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Master Cadre Special 2022

121. Register is a concept pertaining to

1. morphology
2. sociolinguistics
3. psycholinguistics
4. generativism

122. Language acquisition is a part of

1. sociolinguistics
2. ethnolinguistics
3. semiotics
4. psycholinguistics

123. Primarily rule-systems of generative grammars are

1. Stored neurophysiologically
2. psychological
3. both A and B
4. neither A and B

124. In psycholinguistics, the relationship between language and thought as formulated by Chomsky, is rational in the sense that

1. thought comes into being because of language
2. language serves for the expression of pre-existing, full articulate thought
3. language and thought evolve together
4. all of the above

125. The behaviourist theory is based upon

1. rationalist principle
2. stimulus response theory
3. systemic approach
4. sign theory

126. Behaviourist linguistics is attributed to

1. Robins
2. Gleason
3. Grimm
4. Bloomfield

127. In the mentalist theory, the language faculty is

1. innate to the mind
2. species specific
3. both A and B
4. neither A and B

128. In the linguistic theory of Chomsky, the innate capacity of human mind to acquire language faculty is 

1. simply arbitrary
2. structure dependent
3. independent of structure
4. None of the above

129. Vibration of vocal chords makes a sound

1. audible
2. articulatory
3. voiced
4. voiceless

130. In Saussure's linguistic theory sign is 

1. positively related with meaning
2. arbitrary
3. empty
4. Both B and C

131. The form is sign is 

1. signifier
2. signified
3. signification
4. value

132.  Signal is different from sign on account of it being

1. negative
2. empty
3. positive
4. all the above

133. Sound /K/ is

1. labio-dental
2. glottal
3. alveolar
4. velar

134.  Sound /l/ is

1. lateral
2. bilabial
3. fricative
4. dental

135.  Sound /g/ is

1. velar
2. voiced
3. voiceless
4. both A and B

136. Suffixes are of 

1. two types
2. three types
3. one types only
4. four types

137. A morpheme is 

1. free
2. bound
3. Both A and B
4. neither A and B

138.  Allophones are

1. contrastive
2. similar
3. in free variation
4. None of the above

139. Dark 'l' and clear 'l' are

1. phonemes
2. allophones
3. free morphemes
4. bound morphemes

140. Sound /f/ is 

1. fricative
2. affricative
3. plosive
4. nasal

141. The narrative of The God of Small Things covers a period

1. 1947-1997
2. 1969-1993
3. 1962-1969
4. 1962-1993

142. To which book of BR Ambedkar did Arundhati Roy write an introduction?

1. Speeches of Ambedkar
2. Annihilation of Caste
3. Scourge of caste 
4. Programme for Depressed Castes

143. Comrade Kirilov is a novel by

1. Mulk Raj Anand
2. Raja Rao
3. Graham Greene
4. HG Wells

144. Bakha is a character in one of the novels of 

1. Mulk Raj Anand
2. Raja Rao
3. Anita Desai
4. RK Narayan

145. Fifty sermons are attributed to Marvel

1. Marvel
2. John milton
3. Dante
4. John Donne

146. Name the modern English Poet who was not a British Subject by birth

1. TS Eliot
2. WB yeats
3. Philip Larkin
4. Nobody

147. In Raja Rao's The Serpent and The Rope, what is the name of  Ramaswamy's wife?

1. Savithri
2. Saroja
3. Madeleine
4. Elizabeth

148. Hard Times by Dickens appeared in 

1. 1848
2. 1850
3. 1852
4. 1854

149. Hard Times is set in an industrial town

1. Lancanshire
2. Preston
3. Coketown
4. None of the above

150 Listening to Grasshoppers is a collection of essays by

1. Raja Rao
2. Salman Rushdie
3. VS Naipaul
4. Arundhati Roy