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____ is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects.
____ refers to the process through which people acquire the ability to perceive and understand a given language, as well as ability to conduct a communication using the language they have acquired.
The study of language in relation to society is called _____.
____ involves the application of scientific knowledge to language in the context of criminal and civil law.
The term __ refers to a formal approach to language study in the 1930s.
The theory called _____ formulated by K. L Pike and his followers, considers very language to be trimodal i.e., structured in three modes: phonology, grammar, and lexicon.
The Prague School of Linguistics was founded in ____.
___ comprises three components-syntactic, semantic and phonological.
Phrase Structure Grammar is a method of structural description discussed by ____ in his book Syntactic Structures (1957).
___ essentially a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis, was first introduced by Bloomfield and systematized with theoretical formulations by Roulon Wells and Zellig Harris.
Bloomfield’s monumental work Language, the Bible of structuralists was published in ____.
The rules and principles governing the arrangement of words into such higher units like phrase and sentences is technically called _____.
___ are words which are identical in sound and spelling but different in meaning
____ is the process of word formation where a new word is formed by attaching a derivational affix to a stem.
The form to which an affix is attached is called a _____.
The part of linguistics that deals with the study of the structure of words is called ____.
___ is abbreviated to IPA.
When a sound which exists in a word pronounced in isolation or in connected speech is dropped in a compound or connected phrase, it is called _____.
___ indicated by + refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech, the pause that we make between two words to make out the meaning
___ may be described as the degree of force with which a sound or syllable is pronounced.
Additional speech features such as stress, pitch, length etc., affecting speech sounds are called __.
A ______ is a natural division of speech
_____ are phonemically the same, but phonetically different.
_____ is the smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of a language.
What kind of freedom is Tagore praying for in the poem?
The main theme of the poem "Where the Mind is Without Fear" is:
What does Tagore want India to awaken into?
Who is the “Father” addressed in the poem’s last line?
In the poem, “clear stream of reason” is contrasted with:
The phrase narrow domestic walls is a:
The figure of speech in “Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection”:
The poem Where the Mind is Without Fear expresses Tagore’s vision for:
The poem Where the Mind is Without Fear appears in which collection?
Where the Mind is Without Fear was originally written in:
What is the ultimate fate of Indu’s ancestral home?
What happens to Naren by the end of the novel?
Why does Indu leave her ancestral home initially?
Who is Jayant in the novel?
What does Indu ultimately decide to do about Akka’s property?
What significant decision does Akka make before her death?
Whom does Indu have an extra-marital relationship with?
What is Indu’s profession?
Who is the protagonist and narrator of Roots and Shadows?
Roots and Shadows is primarily a:
Which statement from the essay is oxymoronic?
What figure of speech is used when Gardiner says, “If I went to the top of Everest”?
According to Gardiner, what does anarchy represent?
Which political theory is referenced in the essay?
What does the author suggest about playing the trombone in a city street?
What does the woman walking down the middle of the street symbolize?