A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

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1. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’

   A. Performance
   B. Parole
   C. Paradigmatic
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

2. 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

3. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?

   A. December 7, 1928
   B. December 8, 1928
   C. December 9, 1928
   D. December 10, 1928

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

4. Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Chomsky’s competence and Performance ?

   A. Charles Sanders Pierce
   B. Leonard bloom Filed.
   C. Ferdinand De Saussure.
   D. Edward Sapir

5. 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

6. A minimal meaningful unit in the grammatical system of a language is called__________?

   A. Syllable
   B. Phoneme
   C. Morpheme
   D. Allomorph

7. The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

   A. 1957
   B  1958
   C. 1959
   D. 1960

8. Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?

   A. 1975
   B. 1976
   C. 1977
   D. 1988

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

9. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?

   A. 1950
   B. 1951
   C. 1952
   D. 1953

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

10. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?

    A. The falling
    B. The rising
    C. The fall__rise
    D. None of the above