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The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

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

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

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

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

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

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

A sufficient corpus of
description of words in a
language can constitute a

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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

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

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

The organ of speech that
makes sounds voiced or
voiceless is the

What part of the brain can
cause difficulty in speech
production if damaged?
________

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

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

A grammatical rule in
English that says you
cannot use two negatives in
a sentence is an example
of a
rule

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

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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

Variants of a phoneme are
called

The process by which oral
vowels become nasalized
before nasal consonants
within the same syllable is
called

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

The ties and connections
which exist within texts
refer to_______

Damage to the Wernike
area of the brain can cause
difficulties in

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

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in
the statement ‘The suspect
was remanded in custody’
are examples of ______.

Linguistics in the 20th
century was marked by a
focus on the development
of ________.

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

Sign Languages
__________

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

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

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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________

refers to the study of the
meaning of language in its
context of use.

The morphological process
by which the affix ‘un’ is
attached to the root word
‘happy’ to derive ‘unhappy’
is called
_

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

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

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

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

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

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