A language come into existence when_____________?

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1. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. The IPA came into existence in the year__________?

   A. 1889
   B. 1998
   C. 1989
   D. 1888

7. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

8. Which British philosopher of the Romantic era despised monarchies, believed that the best form of government was no government at all, and argued that change can only come from people treating each other with sincerity and benevolence ?

   A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   B. Edmund Burke
   C. William Godwin
   D. John Locke

9. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

   A. Plato’s The Republic
   B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

10. In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?

    A. 1910s
    B. 1930s
    C. 1950s
    D. 1970s