Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?

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1. The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?

   A. Complementary distribution
   B. Contrastive distribution
   C. Non__complementary distribution
   D. None of the abovE.

2. 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.

3. ________________are also called secondary phonemes?

   A. Suprasegmentals
   B. Morphemes
   C. Allomorphs
   D. Allophones

4. ______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility ?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

5. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdenand De Sassure
   C. Leon Battista Alberti
   D. Enoch Powell

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most similar in linguistic style to what books from “Paradise Lost” ?

   A. Three and Four
   B. Five and Six
   C. Eight and Nine
   D. Eleven and Twelve

7. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Toni Morrison

8. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

   A. Cleanth Brooks
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Sigmund Freud

9. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?

   A. George Orwell
   B. Virginia Woolf
   C. Evelyn Waugh
   D. Orson Wells

10. The term used for non-linguistic aspects of speaking is: ___________?

    A. Metalanguage
    B. Paralanguage
    C. Protalanguage
    D. None of These

    Submitted by: Syed Ali Hyder Shah