Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) - Linguistics Previous Year Questions

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2022 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Teaching

Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022

‘Bilingual language acquisition’ refers to the __________.

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Simultaneous acquisition of two languages at a very early age

B

Learning of a second language after 18 years of age

C

Ability to acquire a second language during the first 12 months

D

Sequential acquisition of two languages in adulthood

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2023 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Clinical Linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2023

Aphasia can be caused by

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Open or closed head trauma

B

Attention deficit

C

Neurodegeneration in advanced age

D

Lack of motivation

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2024 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Teaching

Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2024

Which one of the following statements is CORRECT in the context of child language acquisition?

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Young children demonstrate linguistic creativity and productivity by producing grammatical errors which are not found in parental productions.

B

Young children demonstrate linguistic creativity and productivity by producing grammatical errors which they find in parental productions.

C

Young children demonstrate linguistic creativity and productivity by deleting all the inflectional morphemes that are needed in complete productions.

D

Young children demonstrate linguistic creativity and productivity by reproducing nursery rhymes, stories and songs learnt from their caregivers.

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2025 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Clinical Linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2025

Consider the following two statements and choose the correct option.
S1: Patients with Broca's aphasia have trouble producing speech.
S2: Patients with Wernicke's aphasia have trouble understanding what others say.

A

Both S1 and S2 are correct

B

Both S1 and S2 are incorrect

C

S1 is correct and S2 is incorrect

D

S1 is incorrect and S2 is correct

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2026 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Computational Linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 2026

The assumption that the probability of occurrence of a word in a string depends ONLY on the preceding word is called a ______ assumption.

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Markov

B

Gaussian

C

Chebyshev

D

Turing

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2022 · Linguistics · Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World) · Clinical Linguistics

Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022

Lesions in different areas of the left hemisphere lead to qualitatively distinct aphasia syndromes. Which of the given statements is/are TRUE?

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The brain lesions associated with classical anomia involves the dominant angular gyrus.

B

Conduction aphasia follows from a lesion in the posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus.

C

Wernicke's aphasia is the consequence of a lesion in the auditory association cortex of the temporal lobe.

D

Broca's aphasia follows from localized lesions in the temporoparietal regions.

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