List of top Language and Linguistics Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- Linguistics

Many English words at one time had meanings that were quite different from their current ones. Match each of the semantic changes in Column X to an example given in Column Y and select the appropriate sequence. Note: The older meanings of the words of Column Y are provided in the corresponding row in Column Z. \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline Column X & Column Y & Column Z
\hline P. narrowing & i. silly & 'happy, prosperous'
Q. broadening & ii. pretty & 'tricky, sly, cunning'
R. amelioration & iii. bead & 'prayer'
S. pejoration & iv. aunt & 'father's sister'
\hline \end{tabular}
Which of the following sets of languages are part of the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India?
A United States House member used malapropisms (inappropriate words used in place of the appropriate ones) as in the following: 'peach tree dish' instead of \textit{petri dish}
'gazpacho police' instead of \textit{gestapo}
'fragrantly violated' instead of \textit{flagrantly violated}
Such malapropisms show which of the following?
Which of the following are myths about language?
Which one of the following is NOT a correct statement about pidgins and creoles?
The following sentences are examples of Hinglish. What term is used to describe such productions? i. Yaar, if you don't come now, ticket nahin milega.
ii. Sahi direction mein utha har kadam… after all life is all about the next step.
iii. Pepsi – Yeh Dil Maange More!
Human beings can talk about their present, past and future. This property of language is called:
Which one of the following statements is CORRECT in the context of child language acquisition?
Identify the type of 'linguistic deficit' that the patient displays in the interaction shown below: Doctor: "Can you tell me about this picture? What is there or what is happening?"
Patient: "I can't say what… I know what it is… But I don't know where it is and I don't know what it is under. This one here, I can't say and that one, also."
Which of the following show(s) dissociation between cognitive disorder and language abilities?

Consider the following morphological break-up of pfeifing produced by a simultaneous bilingual child. What phenomenon does this example indicate?

What sociolinguistic phenomenon does the following sentence exemplify?

In a writing system, if each unique grapheme represents a unique morpheme/word, the writing system is known as \(\underline{\hspace{2cm}}\)

Identify the language(s) that belong(s) to the Balkan Sprachbund.
In word processing studies, visual word recognition is affected by:
In language policy making, which of the following steps is/are necessary for an erstwhile minority language, spoken by a sizeable population, to be introduced as a medium of instruction in schools?
Which of the following research methods involve Reaction Time?
Which option is related to Neo-Whorfism?
Aphasia can be caused by
Which of the following is/are involved in the comparative method for establishing language families and genetic relationship among languages?
In sociolinguistics, the term 'anti-language' refers to the language used for
Which of the following Dravidian language is spoken in Pakistan?
Which one of the following is a language isolate?
Which of the given statements support the Design Features proposed by Hockett?
Identify the possible set(s) of stops that correlate with the corresponding VOT values.