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FIFTH SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2016
(CUCBCSS—U@Q)
English |
ENG 6B 02/DM ENG 502—LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
‘Sime : Three Hours Maximum : 80 Marks
I. Answer ail the following questions :
1 Which theory locates the origin of language in human instinct to imitate ?
{a) Ding-Dong. (b) Bow-Vow.
(0) Pooh-Pooh. (4) Big-Bang.
2 Who advanced the Ding-dong theory of origin of language ?
(a) Max Muller. (9) Noire.
(೧) Otto Jasperson. (d) None of these.

8 Which theory attributes the origin of language to the sounds uttered by labourers in heavy

work ?
(a) Bow-Vow. (b) Ding-Dong.
(c) Pooh-Pooh. (d) Yo-He-Ho.
4 What is the type of study that focuses on the changes of language over a span of time
called ?
(a) Synchronic. | (४) Diachronic.
(c) Linguistics. (त) Semiotics.

5 Who introduced the term “Semiotics” ?
(a) Charles Sanders Pierce. (b) Edward Sapir.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure. (d) None of these.
6 What is the study of elementary speech sounds known as ?
(a) Morphology. (b) Phonology.

(c) Semantics. (d) None of these.

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