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ABSTRACT This comprehensive collection of notes is accurately crafted to empower students to excel academically, ensuring they achieve a minimum of 80% marks in their examinations. The content is organized with clarity and precision, focusing on key concepts, critical analyses, and practical applications tailored to the syllabus. These notes serve as a reliable resource for both thorough preparation and last-minute revision. Designed to inspire confidence and mastery, this guide is an essential tool for students striving for academic excellence.

Maha Malik Introduction to Linguistics

  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
  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 crayon 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
  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.
  36. A deictic expression (or deixis) is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking. (correct)
  37. All the deictic expressions have to be interpreted in terms of which person, place or time the speaker has in ________________. (mind)
  38. The term “deixis” becomes more and more metaphoric, ambiguous and vague since it is used for many ____________ different situations. (semantically)
  39. The term ‘deixis’ is used from the Latin word, which means ‘to show’ or ‘to indicate’.

(Incorrect)

  1. To perform an act of reference, we can use proper nouns, other nouns in phrases or pronouns.

(correct)

  1. Location deixis is an expression in relation to the certain point of time when the utterance is produced by the speaker. (Incorrect)
  2. The listener has to operate with the inference: ‘If X is the name of the writer of a book, then X can be used to identify a copy of a book by that writer’ (correct)
  3. Which of the following is an example of additional information used by the listener to create a connection between what is said and what must be meant? (Inference)
  4. Tenses are generally separated into ___________ (deictic) and relative tenses. (absolute)
  5. This and that, here and there, etc. as place deixis are the expressions used to show the ____________ relative to the location of a participant in the speech event. (location)
  6. Place deixis is also known as space deixis, and concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance. (correct)

Q47. Which of the following can be defined as subsequent reference to an already introduced entity?

(Anaphora)

  1. One of the tests used to check for the presuppositions underlying sentences involves ____________ a sentence with a particular presupposition and checking if it remains true.

(negating)

  1. A speech act is an utterance that has no performative function in language and communication.
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