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St. Joseph’s College of Arts & Science (Autonomous) St. Joseph’s College Road, Cuddalore – 607001

EEN617 – AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN LINGUISTICS

Time : 3 hrs

Max Marks :75 SECTION – A (5X2=10) Answer any FIVE Questions

1. Define Language? 2. Define Affixes? 3. What is dialect? 4. What is Stress? 5. What is a releasing and arresting consonant? 6. What is a word accent? 7. State whether the sounds represented by the italicised letters in the following English words are oral or nasal: a) Mist b) Often c) Comfort d) Pun 8. What are affricates? SECTION – B (5X5=25) Answer any FIVE Questions 9. Trace the evolution of Standard English. 10. What is an accent? Describe the use of accent in compound words?

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11. What are the three important factors of English intonation? 12. Explain the basic sentence patterns with suitable examples. 13. What are diphthongs? Explain any two diphthongs. 14. What are pure vowels? Describe any two pure vowels with example. SECTION –C (4X10=40) Answer any FOUR Questions 15. Transcribe the following conversation: Ram: Is that Hyderabad 71307? Raj: No. I’m afraid not. It is 71407. Ram: Oh dear. Wrong number again. You see this is the tenth time I’m dialling that number and every time I get a different number. Raj: Why don’t you try through Assistance? Ram: Assistance? Who’ll assist me? Raj: You dial 199 and when someone answers, ask him or her to get you 71307. Ram: Thanks, my dear sir. I wasn’t aware of such a possibility. Raj: Incidentally, your voice is very familiar. Wait a minute, even the number you mentioned seems very familiar. I’m sure I've come across that number sometime, somewhere. Did you say 71307? Ram: I did. Coming to think of it, even your voice seems familiar to my ears. You see I’ve a friend called Raj. Raj: Did you say Raj? Well my name is Raj. Ram: The Raj I want to talk to is Manager of the Princess Street Branch of the Bank of Baroda. Raj: Hey! I am the Manager you’re referring to. Hold a minute. My telephone number was 71307 till about a fortnight ago. The telephone Department changed my number recently. Aren’t you Ram of the L.I.C? Well, Well, well. How are you, old boy?

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16. What is IC analysis? Present an IC analysis of the following sentence using a tree diagram. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life. 17. What is intonation? Explain intonation patterns and their functions. 18. Describe consonants along with the places of articulation in detail. 19. Write an essay on 'Morphology'. 20. Describe the diphthongs whose tongue-positions are marked in figure below. (Imagine that all the front and central vowels are unrounded and that all the back vowels are rounded).

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