Study Area for Final
exam of Linguistics:
(Following topics will
be studied for the brief/short questions only)
Phonetics, phonology,
Lenis, Fortis, Elision, Fricatives, Speech organs
Ferdinand De Saussure,
Prague School of Linguistics, Syntax, Deep and Surface structure,
NP- Movement, Diglossia
n Bilingualism, Passivation, Sociolinguistics, LAD
ZPD, Pidgin, Creole,
Code-Switching, Dialect, Register, Acronym, Elision, Assimilation, Minimal
Pairs, Number of monophthongs in English, Isogloss, Inflections, Schema, IPA,
Aphasia, triphthongs, Allomorph, Pitch, Stress, Tone, Saussure, Idiolect, SLA,
Active and Passive articulators.
Zero Allomorph, Voicing,
Duality, Phonetics, Presupposition
Draw an illustration of the speech organ
Basic Concepts of
Linguistics:
(Following topics
will be studied for Broad and Short questions)
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)
what is IC analysis? Exemplify IC with a tree diagram.
20.
Give a brief description of Sapir-Whorf hypotheses.
21.
Discuss different stages of child language development.
22.
What are the major word formation process in English? Give examples.
23.
What is Syntax? Discuss the major syntactic processes.
24.
Discuss different varieties of socio-linguistics
25.
What is semantics? Provide an analysis of major lexical relations.
26.
Discuss the manner of articulation in details.
27.
Discuss the place of articulations in details.
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) Bilingualism xvi) Langue
xvii) Parole xviii) Internalized rules xix) Paradigm xx) Syntagm xxi) Ferdinand
de Saussure
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, color,
exhibition, grammar, language, communicate, student, beautiful, basic,
decision, tale, communicate, girl, bookish, about, extreme, home
