LIN112

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

Which of the following is
true about language?
Language is _______

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

isé + àtó --> ìsáto meaning
‘eight’ is an example of the
process of ______

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 ________

The sound produced when
the lower lip meets the
upper lip is called_____

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

The manner of articulation
for the consonant sound
[kw] is

The word ‘transcript’ was
formed from the word
'transcription' through a
process of

One of these is a high,
front, rounded vowel
_______

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

The type of sounds
produced by a closed glottis
forcing air pressure in the
mouth that results in loud
sound when the air is
released suddenly are
called ________

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

Nigeria uses the
sign language

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

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

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

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

Sounds produced with the
stream of air flowing out of
the mouth without
obstruction are________

The basic minimal unit of
grammatical analysis in a
language is the ________

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

When the compressed air
in the oral cavity is released
suddenly with an audible
pop sound by the
articulators at the place of
articulation, the sound
produced is________

Stress is an example of a
feature that occurs over an
utterance

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

One of these is a low, back,
unrounded vowel ______

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

Which of the following is not
a component of linguistic
knowledge? ________

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

The organs of speech in the
production of palatal
sounds are the tongue and
the

The word, 'uncommonality'
has
morphemes

The statement, “All
languages have consonant
and vowel sounds” is an
example of a language

Tone performs a
function when it
distinguishes between
sentences that are the
same except for the tones
they bear.

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

What was the concern of
early linguistic efforts in
Nigeria in the late 19th and
early 20th century? _____

All of the following
statements are TRUE of
human language EXCEPT
ONE. All languages
_________

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

The place of articulation for
the consonant sound [ɲ] is

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

In the word 'vandalism',
'ism' is a _________

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

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

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is