List of top Linguistics Questions asked in Common University Entrance Test

Which of the following could be the types of the dictionaries?
(A) Bilingual
(B) Monolingual
(C) Quadratic
(D) Multilingual
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Which of the following belong to Sociolinguistic studies?
(A) Pidgin
(B) Register
(C) Code
(D) Lexicon
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Which of the following languages belong to Austro-Asiatic Language Family?
(A) Bhumij
(B) Kharia
(C) Birhor
(D) Kumaoni
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Which of the following concepts are not proposed by Chomsky:
(A) Competence
(B) Performance
(C) Sign
(D) Signifier
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Under the 92nd amendment of Indian Constitution in 2003, which of the following languages were included in the 8th Schedule list:
(A) Maithili
(B) Bhojpuri
(C) Dogri
(D) Santhali
(E) Bodo
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The forms of noun such as ‘raamah — raamau — raamaah’ in Sanskrit can be explained as:
(A) Sanskrit has three numbers
(B) ’raamau’ indicates ’dual number’
(C) Sanskrit shows gender marking on verb
(D) Sanskrit is highly inflectional
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Which branches of linguistics study language in relation to law and crime:
(A) Criminal linguistics
(B) Forensic linguistics
(C) Language & law
(D) Judicial linguistics
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Among the following, which are the active articulators?
(A) Upper palate
(B) Lower lip
(C) Tongue
(D) Teeth-ridge
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Which of the following could be the cause of semantic change?
(A) Historical factors
(B) Linguistic factors
(C) Foreign Influence
(D) Language Family
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Match List I with List II

LIST I	LIST II
(A) Phoneme	(III) Phonetics
(B) Grapheme	(II) Graphology
(C) Lexeme	(IV) Lexicography
(D) Morpheme	(I) Morphology

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LIST I	LIST II
(A) Chomsky	(II) Performance
(B) Saussure	(I) Syntagmatic
(C) Bhartṛhari	(IV) Sphoṭa
(D) Anandavardhana	(III) Abhidha

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LIST I	LIST II
(A) Bilabial	(II) Upper lip and lower lip
(B) Glottal	(I) Glottis (Vocal cords)
(C) Dental	(IV) Teeth and tip of tongue
(D) Palatal	(III) Hard palate and front of tongue

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LIST I	LIST II
(A) Phonology	(II) Study of speech sounds
(B) Syntax	(III) Study of arrangements of words in sentences
(C) Semantics	(I) Study of meaning
(D) Morphology	(IV) Study of a structure of and classes of words

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LIST I (Book/Theory proposed/Characteristic, etc.)	LIST II (Author/Thinker/Name of Theory, etc.)
A. Velar	I. क, ख, ग
B. Palatal	II. च, छ, ज, ञ
C. Dental	III. त, थ, द, ध
D. Glottal	IV. ह

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LIST I	LIST II
(A) Dravidian	(I) Punjabi
(B) Indo-Aryan	(II) Khasi
(C) Austro-Asiatic	(III) Kannada
(D) Tibeto-Burman	(IV) Manipuri

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LIST I	LIST II
(A) Hyponymy	(III) Inclusion or classification
(B) Complementarity	(I) Relation of oppositeness in pairs of lexical items
(C) Polysemy	(II) Having several meanings
(D) Antonymy	(IV) Relation of oppositeness in pairs

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Rearrange the following words into ascending order to represent various stages of age of a person:
(A). Child
(B). Adolescent
(C). Toddler
(D). Adult
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Rearrange the names of the following linguists in descending order in the world:
(A). Noam Chomsky
(B). Panini
(C). Bloomfield
(D). Saussure
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Rearrange the following languages as per their number of speakers in India:
(A). Hindi
(B). Punjabi
(C). Telugu
(D). Bodo
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Rearrange the following words according to sense of their meaning from best to worse:
(A) Good
(B) Fair
(C) Bad
(D) Excellent
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Re-arrange the following language families as per their number of speakers in the world:
(A) Hindi
(B) Spanish
(C) English
(D) Mandarin
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Rearrange the following units in their chronological order in a dictionary:
(A) Pronunciation
(B) Word
(C) Spellings
(D) Parts of Speech
(E) Meaning
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The study of the linguistic properties of an area is known as:

Linguistics, as a discipline, was studied earlier as:

Pannini's 'Ashtadhyayi' consists of: