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affixes can change the
word class (part of speech)
of the word to which they
are attached.

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

Which of the following does
not feature in the
production of consonants?

Damage to ________part
of the brain can cause
speech comprehension
difficulties.

Which of the following
category of sounds is
absent from the English
sound system?________

__________ is concerned
with the study of how the
brain processes language

In English, 'biographical' is
an example of a ________

What characterised the first
phase of growth of
linguistics as a discipline?

The main organ of speech
in the production of vowels
is the

inter’ in the word
‘interconnectivity’ is an
example of a _______

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

The distinction between
pairs of words like
'prince/princess', is that of

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

Allophonic sounds are said
to occur in complementary
distribution when they occur
in mutually exclusive
environments that
is,______

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is
the

_____________is
concerned with the study of
speech impairment in
children and adults.

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

Which of the theories of the
origin of language explains
using differences in the
biological features between
man and animals?
___________

Which of the following is
NOT TRUE of human
language? It is ______

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

In Hausa, ‘farin ciki’
meaning ‘happiness’ is an
example of a_____

In Hausa, ‘asibiti’ meaning
‘hospital’ is an example of
_______

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

Language interference
refers to _________.

The words ‘berry and bury’,
‘plain and plane’ are
examples of words called

One of the following
distinguishes human
language from animal
language. Human language
is ________

According to
Chomsky,________ is the
use of language in
everyday situations.

According to Saussure,
is the part of language that
reflects its variant nature

[u] is a
, back, rounded, short
vowel

are a group of consonants
characterized by lack of
friction or obstruction in
their production.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

Sounds that begin as stops
and end as fricatives are
called
__.

-ee' in 'mentee' is an
example of a _______
morpheme

The place of articulation for
consonant [mw] which
occurs in Urhobo language
in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is
nasal

This utterance is an
example of ____'Shut that
door, now!'

The word ‘attractive’ is a
for ‘beautiful’.

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

morphemes are free
morphemes that have
independent dictionary
meaning of their own.

Grammar is a system that
is used to generate an
number of sentences

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

The difference between 'go
slow', traffic jam', and heavy
traffic flow' is a
difference

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

The study of differences in
the way people speak
based on variables such as
age, education, ethnicity is
called ______

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

This utterance is an
example of ____'The
accused is hereby
pronounced guilty'.

is the study of language as
an object.

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.