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

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1. 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...

2. Which among the following implies the actual meaningful utterance of the individual speaking or writing a given language ?

   A. Language B. Parole C. performance D. Both parole and performance...

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

   A. Both b and c B. Diachrony/Synchrony C. Acceptable/Unacceptable D. N. O. T Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo...

4. A person who has the ability to use only one language is called__________?

   A. Monologue B. Monolingual C. Monologal D. None of the above...

5. 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....

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

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

7. 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....

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. The consonants /j/ and /w/ are called__________?

    A. Semi__vowels B. Laterals C. Sibilants D. Trills....