dear students
pl find a copy of my 1st part of Linguistic qs.
Basic Concepts of Linguistics:
1.What are the differences between langue and parole?
2.What are the basic concepts of linguistics? How are they interrelated to each other?
3. What do you mean by Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
relationship of language?
4. What is language? What are the different characteristics
of language?
5) Define linguistic performance and linguistics competence.
6) What is Ferdinand de Saussure’s contribution on syntagmatic
and paradigmatic relations in language?
7) Find out the differences and relationship between
Paradigms and Syntagms.
8) What is the innatist view of language acquisition? Define
with examples.
9.What are the three fundamental features used to describe vowel?
Draw and label a vowel quadrilateral showing the primary and secondary cardinal
vowels.
10. How can a knowledge of phonetics help us improve our own
pronunciation?
11. Which organs are considered speech organs? What are the
basic mechanisms of speech production?
12) What are the features which make Phonetics different
from phonology?
13) What is a cardinal vowel? Describe the cardinal vowels
of English and show their positions in a diagram.
14) Define phonetics and phonology. Discuss the features
which make phonology different from phonetics.
15) What is articulation? Classify the consonant sounds of
English according to place of articulation.
16) Define phonetics and phonology. Discuss different
branches of phonetics.
17) What is a diphthong? Describe English diphthongs.
18) Describe the mechanism of speech process. Show the
different organs of speech with the help of a figure.
19. Write short notes on the following:-
i) Glottal stop
ii)Phones and allophones iii) Elision iv) Affricates v) Vowel sounds vi)
Allophone vii) Voiced and unvoiced sounds viii) IPA ix) Assimilation x)
Diphthong xi)Fortis xii) Plosive xiii) Phoneme xiv) Glottis xv) Billingualism
xvi) Langue xvii) Parole xviii) Internalized rules xix) Paradigm xx) Syntagm
xxi) Ferdinand de Saussure
20.Transcribe the following English words in IPA symbols:
Wednesday, think, change, major, town, girl, vision, sexual,
move, car,department, ability, production, university, consider, strength,
digest, attitude, zoo, academy, colour, exhibition, grammar, language,
communicate, student, beautiful, basic, decision, tale, communicate, girl,
bookish, about, extreme, home
Majharul Haq
Associate Professor
Dept. of English
Victoria Govt. College, Comilla
majhar.haq@gmail.com
