Linguistics 2069

Being very precise in terms of time, money or analysis is known as...............

• economy

• objectivity

• exhaustiveness

• consistency

Linguistics is directly concerned with.............................

• pedagogical aspects of languages

• description of languages

• writing teacher's guides

• using language in the classroom

The study of language in relation to culture is known as....................

• micro-linguistics

• macro-linguistics

• ethnolinguistics

• developmental linguistics

The word 'burst' has the vowel.................

• /Λ/

• /3:/

• /Ə/

• /u/

Which of the following words has a vowel sound different from that of the rest?

• some

• sum

• such

• serve

Which of the following classes of words belongs to closed wordclass?

• noun

• adjectives

• pronouns

• adverbs

The sense relationship between the words 'present' and 'absent' is...................

• gradable antonymy

• conversness

• complementarity

• absolute antonymy

. If two words have homophonous relationship, they are...........................

• grammatically similar semantically different

• semantically similar pronunciation different

• pronounced in the same way but semantically different

• semantically inclusive

The sense relation between two lexical items like 'tall' and 'high' is..............

• dialectal synonymy

• complete synonymy

• partial synonymy

• stylistic synonymy

If a Nepali speaker learning English says 'skin shoes' instead of 'leather shoes' is ......................

• phonological error

• lexical error

• morphological

• semantic error