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

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

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

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

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

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

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

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

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

The
_is the smallest minimal
unit of language that can be
pronounced in isolation

Codification is the
stage of language planning

The process by which the
word ‘pilot’ which functions
as a noun is used to
function as a verb is called

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

The vowel in [bᴈ:d] is a
central
unrounded vowel

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

stress is the type of stress
that is produced with a
maximum breath force

Words like "mugu, bam,
swagger" are examples of
in Nigerian English

Words that characterise a
profession like
'stethoscope, syringe,
fracture' are examples of

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

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

The experiment with the
chimpanzee called Nim
demonstrated that animal
communication is
___________

The word ‘lazy’ is a
for ‘hardworking’

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

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

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

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

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

Another term for a free
morpheme is

The head of the capitalised
part of the sentence 'The
terrorists hid IN THE
FOREST' is a

The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

A patient who has
experienced a serious head
injury but is able to respond
to instructions is an
indication that the
side of the brain is still
functioning

The meaning an expression
has over and above its
conceptual content is
known as ______

Which term refers to the
arrangement of words into
phrases and sentences?

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

The control of one side of
the body by the opposite
side of the brain is known
as _______

That all languages mark
plural is an example of a
language

affixes are those affixes that
can alter the meaning of the
words to which they are
attached.

The first phase of linguistics
as a science had its focus
on________ logic of
meaning

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

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

Which theory assumes a
certain period for normal
language acquisition or
learning and development
to take place, after which
language learning can only
be achieved with great
difficulty?

The area of the throat
where voice is produced is
also called

An example of a speech
impairment that requires
the use of sign language is
________

The auditory phonetic
property of a sound that
enables a listener to place it
on a scale from low to high
or vice versa is _______

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

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

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

When a language is
stigmatised, it suggests
which of the following
statements about the
speakers of the
language_______

The type of stress on a
syllable that is produced
with a maximum force of
breath is called________

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

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

The distinction between
langue and parole as an
explanation to language
phenomenon is associated
with _______

In Sign language, the
elements of a sign as
summarized in the acronym
HOLME refers to________

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

Phonology helps us to
know ___________.

is the study of language as
an object.

The effect that an
illocutionary act has on a
hearer is referred to
as______

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

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

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

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

The
houses the vocal cords

Variants of a phoneme are
called