LIN111

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

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

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

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

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

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

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

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

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

All except one of these
statements is not true
___________

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

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

What branch of linguistics
refers to the study of words
and their meaningful parts?

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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

Which of the maxims
relates to how something is
said in a talk exchange?

The origin of linguistics
dates back to ________

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

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

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

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 _________

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

"Its beyond my
apprehension” is an
example of a speech error
called

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

A
is a pidgin that has
acquired native speakers or
first language speakers

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

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

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

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

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

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

is the study of language as
an object.

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

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

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

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

According to English
syntactic rules, the
sentence, ‘They has gone’
is an
sentence.

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

To say 'cerfiticate' instead
of 'certificate' is an example
of _________________

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

The presence of words like
'restaurant, salon, fillet" in
English is a result of

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

Which of the statements
below is FALSE about all
languages? ______

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

Linguists have categorised
the various dimensions of
meaning into three major
classes namely denotative,
associative and
meaning.

Every language has a set of
that determine word order