SPSC - Subject Specialist English 2023 Past Paper with Answers

Practice the SPSC - Subject Specialist English 2023 past paper with 50 solved MCQs, answers and topic coverage.

50 solved MCQs across 1 approved paper

A grammar containing properties common to all languages and innately present in human beings is called?Answer: Universal Grammar Language learning processes, like how language is acquired, how language is stored in the brain, how language is accessed and processed by the brain, are studied under?Answer: Psycho-linguistics Who introduced in linguistics the concept similar to Saussure’s 'Langue and Parole'?Answer: Noam Chomsky _____ are gliding sounds and during their articulation, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another.Answer: Diphthongs The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of ______ assimilation?Answer: Progressive The historical approach to language study, which investigates changes in languages through time is said to be?Answer: Diachronic The syllables in which the consonants function as a nucleus are called?Answer: Syllabic consonants The term used for the non-linguistic aspects of speaking is?Answer: Paralanguage ______ is a term introduced by Noam Chomsky to describe the actual use of language in concrete situations.Answer: Performance I wanted a book ______ Oscar Wilde and asked the librarian to show _____ me some ______ his books.Answer: By/-/of My aunt lived on the ______ ground floor of an old house on River Thames.Answer: The/an/the The Synonym of PLAINTIVE is?Answer: Mournful The Synonym of 'Boisterous' is?Answer: Noisy Analogy of SARTORIAL : TAILOR ::Answer: Terpsichorean : dancer Analogy of INCUBATOR : INFANT ::Answer: Greenhouse : plant I’m afraid my youngest son has never been particularly quick on the _______?Answer: Uptake 'Speech Act Theory' was developed by?Answer: J.L. Austin ______ is a process of word formation by which new words are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form?Answer: Derivation This afternoon, we are to ________ on the relationship between literature and philosophy.Answer: Focus This neighborhood looks a little _______ and tatty these day.Answer: Run down