List of top Language and Linguistics Questions

Which of the following observations can be accounted for by B.F. Skinner's theory of language development?
Which of the following sets of languages are part of the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India?
Which of the following are myths about language?
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 one of the following is NOT a correct statement about pidgins and creoles?
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."
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!
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 \(\underline{\hspace{2cm}}\)

In word processing studies, visual word recognition is affected by:
Identify the language(s) that belong(s) to the Balkan Sprachbund.
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?
Which of the following is/are involved in the comparative method for establishing language families and genetic relationship among languages?
Aphasia can be caused by
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?
Identify the possible set(s) of stops that correlate with the corresponding VOT values.
The estimated fundamental frequency of the given sine wave is (in integer) _________ Hz.