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Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia?
What is the Bow-Wow Theory of language origin based on?
What makes up the language of a speech community, according to Bloomfield?
What produces the audible sounds in language?
What kind of symbols does language use?
Which of the following is true ?
What are sentences made up of?
Why is defining language considered difficult?
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a medium of language ?
What aspect of language does Bloomfield emphasize?
According to Aristotle, language is primarily:
What is the fundamental aim of language?
Which of the following languages is the closest modern descendant of Latin?
Which Indo-European branch includes languages spoken in South Asia, such as Hindi and Bengali?
Sanskrit is part of which Indo-European branch?
Which of these languages is NOT in the Germanic family?
Which of the following languages is part of the Balto-Slavic family?
Which of the following Indo-European branches is completely extinct?
Which of these Indo-European branches has only one surviving language?
The North Germanic languages are also known as:
Which of the following languages belongs to the Romance (Italic) branch?
Which of the following is NOT a branch of the Indo-European language family?
The transcription [spɪn] represents the word "spin." Why is there no aspiration on [p]?
What type of transcription is enclosed in square brackets [ ]?
The transcription /θɪŋk/ represents which word?
What is the correct phonetic transcription of the word "butter" in American English?
In phonetic transcription, which of the following words contains an aspirated sound?
What is the phonemic transcription of the word "jump"?
Which transcription system is most widely used by linguists?
Phonetic transcription is different from phonemic transcription because it:
Which of the following transcriptions is phonemic?
What is transcription in linguistics?
What type of stress is used to highlight an important word in a sentence?
Which of the following words follows the ‘stress shift’ rule in English?
Which stress pattern is commonly found in English verbs of two syllables?
Which type of stress differentiates words in English, such as ‘import’ (noun) and ‘import’ (verb)?
What is the primary function of intonation in English?
Which intonation pattern is used in tag questions that imply the speaker is certain about what is said?
Which of the following best describes 'rhythm' in spoken English?
In English phonology, what is the term for the emphasis placed on certain syllables within words?
Which intonation pattern is often used in polite requests?
In English, which intonation pattern is commonly used in WH-questions (e.g., "What is your name?")?
Which intonation pattern is typically used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements?
Which of the following sounds is a voiceless glottal fricative?
The sound /ʃ/ as in "shoe" is best described as:
In terms of place of articulation, the sounds /f/ and /v/ are:
The vowel sound in the word "cat" is classified as:
What is the term for a vowel sound that starts at one position and glides to another within the same syllable?
Which of the following pairs are both fricative consonants?
In phonetics, which term describes the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning?