List of practice Questions

Bill walked into a store in New York, looking for a restroom. He asked a storekeeper which floor the men’s restroom is and he replied, /ðə fəʊθ flɔː/ for the fourth floor. What kind of store Bill must have walked into?
Which of the followings occurred due to the Great Vowel Shift of the English language?
Which of the following statements are true for the pulmonic consonant table in an IPA chart?
Identify the compounds in the given data.
Linguistic determinism is best captured in _________.
Match the phonological processes in column Y to their names in column X.
‘Bilingual language acquisition’ refers to the _________.
Which of the following is the sequence of derivation as per Minimalist Program?
Linguistic determinism is the strongest form of the _________.
Which of the given statements is TRUE?
Statement (I): Every spoken language includes discrete sound segments that can all be defined by a finite set of sound properties or features.
Statement (II): Speakers of all languages are capable of producing and comprehending an infinite set of sentences.
While writing on the diversity of rural settlements, Bernard Cohn has identified which of the following village patterns?
According to Andre Gunder Frank, which of the following factors are responsible for the development of underdevelopment in Latin America?
Which of the following statements describe the concept of sustainable development?
The categories of caste and tribe have been understood as colonial constructions. Which statements instantiate the above?
Which statements express the ideas of A. M. Shah with regard to family and household in India?
According to Celestin Bougle, the spirit of the caste system is determined by the mutual repulsion that exists between castes. Identify TWO different aspects in which such mutual repulsion is manifested:
Which of the following statements explain and illustrate the term ‘tragedy of commons’?
Match the following:
According to Walt W. Rostow, all nations pass through _________ stages of economic development and _________ stage marks the interval when the old blocks and resistances to steady growth are finally overcome.
Which of the following statements are correct?
[i] Gustavo Esteva argues that the 1949 address of the US President Harry S. Truman marks the opening of the era of development.
[ii] According to Escobar, ‘development can best be described as an apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the Third World with the deployment of forms of power and intervention, resulting in the mapping and production of Third World societies’.
Which among the listed options most closely replicate(s) Jurgen Habermas’ idea of the public sphere?
In the light of given information, which pairs are correct?
What concepts were studied in the famous Milgram social experiment where teachers did not hesitate to give electric shocks to learners?
According to Max Weber, in addition to power what are the other TWO distinct components of stratification?
According to Talcott Parsons, the dichotomies of pattern variables or alternatives an actor can choose in society are: ascription vs _________; affectivity vs _________; and diffuseness vs _________.