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

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1. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements” ?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdinand de Saussure
   C. Edward Sapir
   D. None of the above

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language ?

   A. Language
   B. Parole
   C. Competence
   D. Both langue and Competence

9. The language variety which has certain features which are typical of certain disciplines, topics, fields, occupations and social roles played by the speaker, is called________________ ?

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

10. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

    A. Productivity
    B. Langue
    C. Paradigmatic
    D. Parole

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo