Linguistics Suggestions

 

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