ENG502 Final Term Past Papers Set 2

32 MCQs; 8 Questions of 3 Marks & 4 Questions of 5 Marks

Time Duration: 120 minutes

1. We can also refer to things when are not sure (call)

2. An appropriate number of (cohesive ties)

3. The maxim of quantity asks one to be (brief)

4. According to research in developing morphology the acquisition of the plural marker

(overgeneralization)

5. Emotional reaction or affect (all of the given)
6. Vocabulary lists and sets of grammar rules are used (grammar Translation Method)
7. For lexicographers indispensable resources (dictionaries)
8. Specific aspects of language ability can be accorded (localization)

9. In the quantitative research we use (static)

10. Oung and Jun (Chinese)

11. According to Grim law p of Latin has been change into f in (English)

12. Verb phrase cannot consist (D+N)

13. In the sentence Charlie broke the window and The window was broken by Charlie. Which thing distinguishes both sentences? (SURFACE)
14. Near London is example of PREPOSITIONAL phrase

15. He drew the picture with a crayon; HERE caryon IS INSTRUMENT

16. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of linguistics which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems
17. Semantic role is the UNDERLYING relationship that a participant has with the main verb in a clause.

18. Anaphora can be defined as subsequent reference to an already introduced entity

19. Semantic development in a child's use of words is usually a process of OVEREXTENSION

20. Sihia is the language of JAPAN

21. Young, Lichun and Jun (2001) analyzed contents of four Chinese journals of Applied Linguistics
22. Psycholinguistics is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language.
23. Social-Cultural context still includes factors such as illiteracy rate, population geographic distribution, educational level and the populations’ ethnic composition

24. The sources of lexicographers are SECONDARY fieldwork

25. The first component is grammatical competence, which involves the accurate use of words and structures.
26. The deep structure is an abstract level of structural organization in which all the elements determining structural interpretation are represented.
27. If an agent uses another entity in order to perform an action, that other entity fills the role of instrument.
28. The idea of ‘the characteristic instance’ of a category is known as the Prototype.
29. Semantic development in a child's use of words is usually a process of ...... OVEREXTENSION
30. The sentence can be grammatically correct but SEMANTICALLY incorrect.
31. One of the tests used to check for the presuppositions underlying sentences involves negating a sentence with a particular presupposition and checking if the presupposition remains true.
32. The acquisition of the plural marker is often accompanied by a process of OVERGENERALIZATION
33. Two Word stage begins around eighteen to twenty months. The child’s vocabulary moves beyond FIFTY WORDS.
34. Electronic dictionary databases, especially those included with software dictionaries are often extensive and can contain up to 500,000 headwords and definitions, verb conjugation tables, and a grammar reference section
35. Two word stage occurs between 18 to 24 month.

Q. Stages of Child language learning:

The stages of language production by the children focusing primarily on the unfolding of lexical and syntactic knowledge are mentioned as follows:

Stage · Typical Age · Description Age

Babbling 6-8 months Repetitive CV patterns Oneword stage(better onemorpheme or oneunit) or holophrastic stage 9-18 months. Single open-class words or word stems

Two-word stage 18-24 months ‘mini-sentences’ with simple semantic relations Telegraphic stage or early multiword stage 24-30 months ‘Telegraphic’ sentence structures of lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes. Later multiword stage 30+ months Grammatical or functional structure emerge Q. Two Phrase Structure Rule:

These are the rules that form phrases of different types e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, and adjective phrase etc. A tree diagram can have two different ways: simply as a static representation of the structure of the sentence shown at the bottom of the tree diagram. Every single sentence can have a tree diagram. The other one is the dynamic format which is a way of generating not only that particular sentence, but a very large number of other sentences with similar structures. This second approach is very appealing because it would enable us to generate a very large number of sentences with what looks like a very small number of rules. These rules are called phrase structure rules. These rules state that the structure of a phrase of a specific type will consist of one or more constituents in a particular order. Phrase structure rules present the information of the tree diagram in another format.

S → NP VP NP → {Art (Adj) N, Pro, PN} VP → V NP (PP) (Adv) PP → Prep NP

Q. Standard Varieties of English in World:

There are different standard varieties of English in the world:

British English North American English, Australian English Indian English, etc.

Q. Standard Variety:

It is an idealized variety, because it has no specific region. It is associated with administrative, commercial and educational centers, printed in newspapers and books, and used in the mass media regardless of region. It is more easily described in terms of the written language (i.e., vocabulary, spelling, grammar) than the spoken language.

Q. Wave Model:

During the 20th century the wave model has had little acceptance as a model for language change overall. It has recently gained more popularity among historical linguists due to the shortcomings of the Tree model. The wave model was originally presented by Johannes Schmidt.

In this diagram, the circles are to be regarded as diachronic; that is, they increase in diameter over time, like the concentric waves on a water surface struck by a stone. The circles are stable dialects; characters or bundles of characters that have been innovated and have become more stable over an originally small portion of the continuum for socio-political reasons. These circles spread from their small centers of maximum effectiveness like waves, INNOVATION D INNOVATION C INNOVATION B INNOVATION A