Language is never statiC. It goes on changing. This property of language is called______________ ?

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1. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. Transference.

2. Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called______________ ?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE

3. Using a finite set of rules a speaker can produce innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is called______________?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE

4. Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE.

5. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

   A. Sociolinguistics
   B. Psycholinguisctics
   C. Biolinguistics
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

7. Which among the following is an exception to the property of arbitrariness of language ?

   A. Onomatopoeia
   B. Homophones
   C. Homonyms
   D. Portmanteau

8. There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?

   A. Arbitrariness.
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE.

9. The different concrete phonetic variation of the same phoneme are called______________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

10. Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?

    A. A person who has two black parents.
    B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
    C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
    D. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto