LIN112

The statement 'He is a
backstabber' can be only be
understood in ________

______ is the process of
determining the time of
separation of genetically
related languages

Damage to the _________
hemisphere of the brain can
lead to language disorders

One of these is a velar
nasal_______

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

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

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

The co-existence of two
different forms of language
in a society--often a "high"
and "low" or "official" and
"lingua franca" form--is
called

refers to when the
languagevariety of a
speaker differs only in
pronounciation

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

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

__________ was a Swiss
scholar often referred to as
the father of modern
linguistics

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

The statement, "I am
coming" instead of "I'll be
back" is an example of
language

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

The science of designing
machines that simulate
human intelligence is
known as _________

The features that all human
languages share in
common are referred to as
________.

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

According to Chomsky,
grammar is a native
speakers’
of his/her language

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

Which of the following do
not occur in final positions
in words?

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

All except one of these
statements is not true
___________

_____is a phonological
feature in which all vowels
within a defined unit agree
in one phonetic value.

In English, the plural
marker realised as '-s' as in
/pɒts/ 'pots', '-z' as in
/pænz/ 'pans' and '-iz' as in
/haʊziz/ ;'houses' are
examples of ________

_is the object of study for
linguistics

A speaker's use of his/her
language in interaction is
called

The phrase ‘Jamb question’
in Don’t ask me ‘jamb
question’ is an example of a
________

The use of a set of
alphabets to represent
distinctive sounds is called
an

Sociolinguistics is
concerned with the study of
the relationship between
language and

Nigeria uses the
sign language

The
houses the vocal cords

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

One of the following is a
correct analysis for ‘The
suicide bomber put the
bomb in a bag’
________________

A proposal to change the
ways in which a language is
to be used in society is part
of ___________

The feature these sounds
have in common is that
they are
sounds [m, n, ɲ]

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

In Ikwere dialect spoken in
Rivers State, the words
[risi] and [riʃi] both mean
‘head’. In other words, the
use of consonant sound [s]
or [ʃ] does not change the
meaning of the word.
Therefore, both sounds are
said to be in _________

English is said to have
stress-timed rhythm
because in connected
speech,__________

The action of pushing out of
air from the lungs is
referred to as
__.

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

Linguistics is a science
because ____________

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

The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

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