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Which of these is a semantic relation which denotes 'a constituent part of, or a member of something' relation?

  1. Holonymy

  2. Meronymy

  3. Pertainym

  4. Polysemy

  5. Troponymy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Meronymy (from greek, meros = part and onoma = name) is a semantic relation used in linguistics. A meronym denotes a constituent part of, or a member of something.

In which city are the headquarters of NAAC situated?

  1. New Delhi

  2. Bangalore

  3. Chennai

  4. Mumbai

  5. Chandigarh


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India. It is an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.

What is that person called, who compiles dictionaries?

  1. Lexicographer

  2. Linguist

  3. Polyglot

  4. Grammaticalization

  5. Phonetician


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries. Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.

Which of the following refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words?

  1. Verbosity

  2. Succinctness

  3. Nominalization

  4. Laconic phrase

  5. Obfuscation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words.

Which of the following is used by google search to measure the importance of website pages?

  1. Widget

  2. Hyperlink

  3. Google Toolbar

  4. Pagerank

  5. Applet


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Pagerank is an algorithm used by google search to rank websites in their search engine results. Pagerank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

Which of the following is not a component of meta-communication?

  1. Pitch

  2. Volume

  3. Prosody

  4. Writing

  5. Intonation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language.

Which of the following is the linguistic study of writing systems?

  1. Lexis

  2. Semantics

  3. Semiotics

  4. Orthography

  5. Graphemics


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Graphemics or graphematics is the linguistic study of writing systems and their basic components, i.e. graphemes.

Which statutory body established NBA in India?

  1. CBSE

  2. UGC

  3. AICTE

  4. NIOS

  5. ISC


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India was established by AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education) as an autonomous body under section 10(u) of AICTE act, 1987 for periodic evaluations of technical institutions & programmes basis according to specified norms and standards as recommended by AICTE council.

Which of these is used to identify a name of a web resource?

  1. HTTP

  2. HTML

  3. RFC

  4. XML

  5. URI


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name of a web resource. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the web resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols. Schemes specifying a concrete syntax and associated protocols define each URI.

Which of the following is the smallest contrastive linguistic unit, which may bring about a change of meaning?

  1. Lemma

  2. Lexeme

  3. Word stem

  4. Morpheme

  5. Phoneme


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A phoneme is a basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words or morphemes. The phoneme can be described as the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning.

For what purpose is the software package called SPSS used?

  1. Data processing

  2. Statistical analysis

  3. Semantic processing

  4. Data collection

  5. Machine learning


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

SPSS statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis.

Which of these specify, how some software components should interact with each other?

  1. STL

  2. Programming language

  3. API

  4. JDK

  5. Microsoft Windows


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

An application programming interface (API) specifies how some software components should interact with each other.

Which of the following is the practice of championing one variety or manner of speaking of a language against another?

  1. Neurolinguistics

  2. Psycholinguistics

  3. Prescription

  4. Rhetoric

  5. Contrastive linguistics


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Prescription or prescriptivism is the practice of championing one variety or manner of speaking of a language against another.

What is the phenomenon called when the sun suddenly releases a great amount of solar radiation?

  1. Ozone hole

  2. Tornado

  3. Epidemic

  4. Gamma-ray bursts

  5. Solar flare


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A solar flare is a phenomenon where the sun suddenly releases a great amount of solar radiation, much more than normal.

Which of the following is the study of the history of words and their origins?

  1. Historical linguistics

  2. Etymology

  3. Anthropological linguistics

  4. Graphetics

  5. Phonetics


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By an extension, the term the etymology of [a word] means the origin of the particular word.

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