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

Related Mcqs:

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. 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

3. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

   A. Syntagmatic
   B. Synergy
   C. Performance
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

4. What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?

   A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
   B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
   C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
   D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel”

5. The type of study which focus on the analysis of the systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a particular time is called________________?

   A. Synchronic
   B. Diachronic
   C. Semiotic
   D. Onomatopoeic

6. 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

7. Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?

   A. Concord
   B. Gerund
   C. Phrase structure
   D. None of the above

8. The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Syntax
   D. Semantics

9. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as questions ?

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

10. ________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?

    A. Intonation
    B. Stress
    C. Pitch
    D. JuncturE