Question: The type of study of the changes in language over a span of time is called________________?

• 1. Synchronic
• 2. Diachronic
• 3. Semiotic
• 4. Onomatopoeic

Question: Language is never statiC. It goes on changing. This property of language is called______________ ?

• 1. Dynamic
• 2. Recursiveness
• 3. Displacement
• 4. TransferencE

Question: Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and events which are not present at the time and place of speaking. This property of language is called______________ ?

• 1. Duality of structure
• 2. Recursiveness
• 3. Displacement
• 4. TransferencE

Question: Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and morphemes and at the level of words. This property of language is called_______________?

• 1. Duality of structure
• 2. Recursiveness
• 3. Displacement
• 4. TransferencE.

Question: Find the odd one out____________________?

• 1. Ferdinand de Saussure
• 2. Edward Sapir
• 3. Leonard Bloomfield
• 4. Herman Gundert

Question: The Musical Theory of the origin of language was advanced by_________________?

• 1. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
• 2. Noire
• 3. Max__Muller
• 4. Otto Jespersen

Question: The Ding__Dong theory of the origin of language was advanced by_______________?

• 1. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
• 2. Noire
• 3. Max__Muller
• 4. Otto Jepersen

Question: The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of the involuntary exclamations of pain, surprise, pleasure or wonder_________________?

• 1. Ding Dong theory
• 2. The Bow__vow theory
• 3. The Pooh__pooh theory
• 4. The Gesture theory

Question: The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result of human instinct to imitate sounds _______________?

• 1. Ding Dong theory
• 2. The Bow-vow theory
• 3. The Pooh-pooh theory
• 4. The Gesture theory

Question: Who defined language as “a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols” ?

• 1. Noam Chomsky
• 2. Ferdinand de Saussure
• 3. Edward Sapir
• 4. None of the above