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Q1\ State whether the following statements are true ( T ) or false ( F ) :-
( 15 Marks )
1. I didn’t understand what he was saying.

2. The deer were moving across the field.

3. The editorial, which had appeared in the times , was the talk of the town.

4. They are doubting the truth of what you say.

5. It is important for every student to have a book.

6. Traditional grammar prescribes the rules of correctness.

7. In the physical adaptation view , one function ( producing speech sounds ) must have

been superimposed.

8. Jeans is an example of eponim.

9. The symbols are mostly arbitrary in the people and animals.

10. The concepts of communication in animals are genetically inbuilt.

11. Being relevant in a conversation is a feature of the quality maxim.

12. Pragmatics deals with the dictionary meaning of the words.

13. The concept of the script represents the conventional knowledge structure in memory

for specific things , such as a supermarket.

14. The conceptual meaning is the meaning that people might connect with the use of the

words.

15. The single-unit stage of first language acquisition occurs between the age of 12 and

18 months.

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Q2\ Choose the most appropriate item : ( 15 Marks )

1. In the …………. stage , the child starts to produce strings of lexical morphemes.

A) One-word B) Telegraphic C) Two-word D) Cooing and bubbling speech

2. ……….. refers to words we use to point with language.

A) Presupposition B) Deixis C) Anaphora D) Inferences

3. The child’s vocabulary becomes roughly 200-300 in the ………… acquisition stage.

A) Two-word B) One-word C) cooing and babbling D) Telegraphic speech

4. when a word has two or more related meaning , the lexical relation will be ……… .

A) Homonyms B) Homophone C) Metonymy D) Polysemy

5. the “ rules of sentence formation ” best describes the concept of ……… .

A) Morphology B) Semantics C) Syntax D) Pragmatics

6. the study of the human speech sound in a language systematized patterns is called …….. .

A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phonetics and phonology D) Articulators

7. What are liquids sounds ?

A) / l / and / r / B) / j / and / w / C) / m / and / n / D) / d3/ and / t /

8. Semivowels are :

A) / l / and / r / B) / w / and / j / C) / w / and / u / D) / w / and / r /

9. Palatalization is :

A) Raising of the B) The dorsum C) The muscles of D) The tip of the

blade of the of the tongue the articulators tongue touches
tongue toward is raised lax when the ridge of
the palate. slightly. pronouncing a the teeth.
sound.

10. The syllabic /l/ is most often represented in spelling of the letters :

A) “ ey ” B) “ el ” C) “ ol ” D) “ il ”

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11. Their old apartment was ………. 53 rd Street .

A) in B) on C) at D) down

12. Next month , these children ………. with their grandparents.

A) hasn’t stayed B) have been staying C) will staying D) will be staying

13. Before Elizabeth won the lottery , she ……… any kind of confront.

A) hasn’t entered B) doesn’t enter C) was entering D) hadn’t entered

14. Mutton is a kind of ……… meat.

A) the B) zero C) an D) a

15. Two states border the United States , one is Canada ……… is Mexico.

A) another B) other C) others D) the other

Q3\ Fill in the blanks with suitable answers: ( 30 Marks )

1) _________ are words used , typically with nouns , to provide more information
about the things referred to.
2) De Saussure’s central ideas concerning the study of language were expressed
in the form of parts of concepts called ________ .
3) Conjunctions are words used to make connections and indicates relationships
between ___________ .
4) Grammatical gender is a category which is based on the type of noun and is not tied
to _________ .
5) ________ analyses the language as is used in social context .
6) The foot begins with a ________ syllable and includes all following _______ syllables.
7) Minimum syllable consists of ________ as in “or” , “are” / _____ /.
8) The syllabic /l/ is most often represented in spelling of the letters “ ___” and “ ___” .
9) The falling-rising tone is used to signal _______ , ________ .
10) The word “seven” might be pronounced as / _____ / , or / _____ / .
11) The vowel / Ә / is associated with ______ syllable and originally described as ______.

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12) The pre-head
head is composed of all the _______ syllables in tone-unit
tone unit preceding the
stressed syllable.
13) ( Yes ) with a rise-fall
fall tone gives an impression of _________ .
14) English language is called _________ timed ________ language .
15) The syllabic / m / and / ɳ / may occur as a result of processes of ______ and _____.

Q4\ Answer the following questions : ( 40 Marks )

1)) What are the various types of concord in English ? Support your comment with
examples.

2) Linguistics and sociolinguistics are related in some way or another . Discuss .

3) The
he variation and control of pitch in intonation has three functions, what are they?

4) A verb can be intensive , intransitive , and stative , for example . Show all the

possible cases of a verb in different sentences in condition that the subject , or

the object , or the adverb is also a sentence.

Good Luck

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