| Post Name | Research Assistant (Linguistics) - KIRTADS |
|---|---|
| Question Paper Code | 170/2023/OL |
| Category Code | 742/2021 |
| Date of Test | 21 December 2023 |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Match the following List I List II a. Breeks J.W. 1. An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilgiri b. Gravely F.H. 2. Gramophone Records of languages and Dialects of Madras Province c. Luiz A.A.D. 3. Tribes of kerala d. Thurston E. 4. Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Answer
A. a-1 b-2 c-3 d-4
2
Identify the Nilagiri tribe/tribes among the following
Answer
D. Badagas
3
Which is the correct explanation for asymmetric intelligibility?
Answer
B. Speaker of one language understand another language, but not the other way around
4
Which one of the following is the correct explanation for the term "Linguistic Distance"?
Answer
A. The measure of how diļ¬erent one language or dialect is from another
5
Which of the following article of Indian constitution provides "Any section of the citizens residing in the territory of India or any part thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own shall have the right to conserve the same"
Answer
C. Article 29
6
In which of the following work the term "idiolect" was coined?
Answer
C. A set of postulates for phonemic analysis
7
In which district/districts of Kerala Maha Malasars are inhabited?
Answer
A. Palakkad
8
Which of the following term is used to describe the diļ¬erent language resources available to a single person and the values associated with each resource?
Answer
C. Linguistic capital
9
In which of the following states 'Chenchu' inhabited? (i) Andhra Pradesh (ii) Telangana (iii) Odisha (iv) Karnataka
Answer
D. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
10
Which one of the following is not included in the four subdivisions of Kurichiyam (i) Kunnam Kurichian (ii) Anchilla Kurichian (iii) Pathiri Kurichian (iv) Mullu Kurichian
Answer
B. (iv) only
11
Which of the following is/are related to a moribund language? (i) A language that will almost certainly become extinct in the near future (ii) A language that no children speak as their ļ¬rst language (iii) A language that is considered prestigious when it is spoken by those in power (iv) A language that is revived through revitalization eļ¬orts
Answer
A. (i) and (ii)
12
Who developed the tool typecraft?
Answer
B. Dorothee Beermann and Atle Prange
13
Which of the following is the ļ¬fth stage in the Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale for Threatened Languages?
Answer
D. Literacy in the minority language is common across all generations, although it is not supported through the school system
14
Which of the following are not included in the evaluative factors of language vitality in the UNESCO document 2003? (i) Intergenerational Language Transmission (ii) Response to new domains and media (iii) Intergenerational Disruption scale (iv) Improving living conditions and respect for the human rights of speaker communities
Answer
B. (iii) and (iv)
15
Who introduced the term logosphere to describe the web linking the world's languages?
Answer
B. Michael E Krauss
16
Which is the label and degree of endangerment assigned to the description "the language is used for local and regional work by both insiders and outsiders" in the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale by Lewis and Simons (2010)?
Answer
A. Trade, Safe
17
Which is the term used by Lewis and Simons (2010) to refer to the extent to which a language is used to facilitate communication among those who speak diļ¬erent ļ¬rst languages?
Answer
C. Vehicular language
18
When and where the convocation of the world conference on Linguistic Rights (WCLR) was held?
Answer
A. 6th to 8th June, 1996 in Barcelona
19
The utmost important eco-regions among the eco-regions mapped by WWF in the maintenance of world ecological viability is called as
Answer
C. Global 200 Eco-regions
20
Which of the following is/are considered as inalienable personal rights by the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights? (i) The right to be recognized as a member of a language community (ii) The right to the use of one own name (iii) The right to maintain and develop one's own culture (iv) All the rights recognized by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Answer
D. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
21
Which article of the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights declares that all language communities are entitled to the oļ¬cial use of their language within their territory?
Answer
C. Article 15
22
Who has written the preface to the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights?
Answer
B. Carles Torner
23
Who is the editor in chief of UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger?
Answer
A. Christopher Moseley
24
According to Stuart Blackburn and Jean Robert Opgenort, in which region the endangered languages in India was clustered?
Answer
C. North-East and Central-East India
25
In which state two-third of the total population are mother-tongue speakers of one of approximately thirty endangered languages?
Answer
A. Arunachal Pradesh
26
Which of the following tribal language in Kerala is enlisted in the third edition of UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger?
Answer
D. Irula
27
How many languages of the Indian Subcontinent are mapped in the third edition of UNESCO Atlas of the World's languages in Danger?
Answer
A. 71
28
According to the 2011 census, what is the estimated population of Cholanikan tribes in kerala?
Answer
B. 124
29
Which one of the following is not included in the ten territories of Cholanikans?
Answer
D. Pothukallu
30
Which of the following are the non-Indian languages mapped in the third edition of UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger?
Answer
A. Pale and Riang
31
The linguistic convergence between among typologically distinct languages is known as
Answer
A. Sprachbund
32
The oļ¬cial language of Meghalaya is
Answer
C. Khasi
33
Which of the following speech sounds are Dravidian loans into IndoAryan?
Answer
A. Retroļ¬exes
34
Brahui language belongs to the
Answer
D. Dravidian family
35
The study of the changes and developments of the same language at diļ¬erent periods is
Answer
B. Historical Linguistics
36
A linguistic area indicates
Answer
C. shared linguistic features across language family
37
In some languages words typically contain a linear sequence of morphs and therefore these languages are known as
Answer
B. Agglutinating
38
Mutual intelligibility is a criterion used in Linguistics for identifying
Answer
A. Dialect
39
The concept of Diglossia was given by
Answer
A. Charles A. Ferguson
40
The Dravadian language spoken outside of Indian Territory is
Answer
A. Brahui
41
Who has compiled and edited Linguistics survey of India in 1981?
Answer
B. George Grierson
42
Which among the following is central to the goals of language documentation?
Answer
A. Language revitalization
43
Which is the key factor in language maintenance?
Answer
B. Language Pride
44
Language documentation is
Answer
A. Digital collection of data
45
A path breaking work India as a linguistic area was done by
Answer
D. M.B. Emeneau
46
Dravidian Languages are
Answer
C. Agglutinative languages
47
Which is not the classical language of India
Answer
B. Hindi
48
Restricted and Elaborated Codes are developed by
Answer
C. Basil Bernstein
49
A person who is ļ¬uent in more than two languages is called
Answer
B. Polyglot
50
A comparative grammar of South Indian Languages was written by
Answer
A. Robert Caldwell
51
Ethno linguistics is the
Answer
C. study of language and culture
52
Giving grammatical labels to the parts of sentence is called
Answer
C. Annotation
53
A language at the verge of extinction is called
Answer
B. Endangered language
54
How many languages are included in the eight schedule of the Indian constitution?
Answer
D. 22
55
Language maintenance or loss in a bilingual situation is studied under
Answer
A. Sociolinguistics
56
Which linguistic ļ¬eldwork tool primarily focuses on facilitating interlinear glossing and morphological analysis?
Answer
C. FLEx
57
Among the listed tools, which one is speciļ¬cally designed for the annotation and analysis of audio and video data?
Answer
B. ELAN
58
Seven dimension of portability in linguistic tools refers to
Answer
C. Compatibility with multiple device types
59
Metadata and archiving in linguistic ļ¬eldwork tools primarily aim to
Answer
C. Enable eļ¬cient data retrieval and management
60
Which tool among the listed ones emphasizes metadata creation for linguistic documentation?
Answer
Question Cancelled
61
Linguistic standards of documentation primarily focus on
Answer
C. Establishing norms for consistent and comprehensive documentation
62
FLEx is particularly known for its robustness in
Answer
B. Morphological analysis and lexicon building
63
Which hardware tool is commonly used in linguistic ļ¬eldwork for capturing high-quality audio recordings?
Answer
B. Handheld recorders
64
Say More, in comparison to other tools, primarily focuses on
Answer
B. Text annotation and translation
65
Linguistic standards in documentation primarily aim to
Answer
A. Enhance cross-linguistic data compatibility
66
Match the following : List I List II a. Ausbau 1. Malcolm Kloss b. Metatypy 2. Heinz Kloss c. Stratum 3. Graziadio Isaia Ascoli d. Cultural diļ¬usion 4. Leo Forbanius
Answer
B. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
67
Which method according to Fishman can be preferred in the revitalization of a moribund language?
Answer
B. Master-apprentice method
68
According to David Crystal the language revitalization would be successful if : (i) Language's prestige within the dominant community is increased (ii) The presence of the language in the education system is made strong (iii) The use of electronic technology is kept away. (iv) All the above.
Answer
A. (i) and (ii)
69
Which of the following is associated with digital projects and repositories related to endangered languages? (i) Lingua Libre (ii) Tatoeba (iii) Culture Vannin (iv) Punana Leo
Answer
A. (i) and (ii)
70
What do you mean by the term liturgical language?
Answer
C. A language that is primarily used for religious worship
71
The origin of the concept 'language nest' approach is associated with
Answer
C. Maori language revival
72
Who runs Rosetta Project?
Answer
D. Long Now Foundation
73
Which of the following involves the elimination or exclusion of foreign elements?
Answer
A. Xenophobic purism
74
A word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word for word translation is called as
Answer
B. Calque
75
A cluster of linguistic varieties with signiļ¬cant linguistic distance from all others
Answer
B. Abstand
76
What is MLE?
Answer
B. Multilingual education
77
What is Odisha model of tribal education to develop respect among tribal children for their language and culture?
Answer
C. Teaching mother tongue in primary classes
78
How does the contemporary situation of tribal languages in Kerala diļ¬er from the situation 100 years ago?
Answer
A. Most of them got endangered and demands revitalization
79
Do you think there's a space for digital solutions in Kerala's language revitalization process?
Answer
A. Yes
80
Revitalization of tribal languages in Kerala is achieved by
Answer
C. through speakers empowerment programs
81
The ability of native speakers to provide interpretation and systematization for linguistic units and events is called
Answer
A. Meta Linguistic Knowledge
82
A question in the parliament or assembly about the status of language should be answered by a linguist as
Answer
C. Conclusion about the status of language with evidence
83
Match the items in List I with the items in List II and answer by selecting the correct code : List I List II a. Moving analogue materials to the digital domain i. analysis b. Transcription translation analysis and notations of metadata ii. capture c. Creating archival objects and assigning access and usage rights iii. mobilization d. Publication and distribution of the materials in various forms iv. archiving
Answer
D. a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
84
The structured information about events, recordings, and data ļ¬les is called
Answer
B. Meta data
85
Choose the right aims of a sketch grammar in language documentation
Answer
A. Comprehensiveness, accuracy and user-friendliness
86
Documentation of a language is mainly focused on which among the following
Answer
B. All performances of a language
87
The situation in which the language is used mostly by very few speakers, of the great-grand parental generation
Answer
A. Critically endangered
88
The endangered status of a language is identiļ¬ed based on
Answer
C. Both 1 and 2
89
Which state in India imparts primary education in tribal languages?
Answer
A. Odisha
90
Majority of the tribal languages in India belong to the
Answer
C. Identiļ¬able mother tongues
91
Language shift among the tribal communities in Kerala from their mother tongue to the dominant language is
Answer
D. Extrinsically motivated
92
Tribal languages as a medium of education in the Indian context is
Answer
C. Restricted code
93
Tribal languages in Kerala are variably in contact with
Answer
B. Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada
94
Tribal communities in Kerala are dominantly
Answer
B. Bilinguals
95
Which among the right reasons why many tribal languages in Kerala are not listed as independent languages in the Census of India after 1961?
Answer
A. Population of speakers is below 10,000
96
Status of language in general can be stated in terms of
Answer
A. Vitality
97
Which among the dominant reasons for the endangerment of languages?
Answer
C. Not transmitted from the old generation to the new generation
98
Tribal languages in Kerala are typologically
Answer
B. Postpositional
99
Which tribal community given below belongs to the primitive tribal group of kerala?
Answer
B. Cholanaickan
100
Language attrition among the tribal language community in Kerala is the result of
Answer
A. Second language acquisition
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