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

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

The earliest recorded
linguistic efforts in Nigeria
were by the _______

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

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

According to
Chomsky,________ is the
use of language in
everyday situations.

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

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

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

With more than 500
languages, Nigeria is an
example of a
nation.

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

The word for 'hospital' in
Hausa is 'asibiti' an
example of

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

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

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

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

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

This utterance is an
example of ____'The
accused is hereby
pronounced guilty'.

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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

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

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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

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

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

The function word in the
sentence, "Kola passed his
exams" is
__.

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

A morpheme that cannot
stand on its own is called a
morpheme

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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

Linguistics is a science
because ____________

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

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

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

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

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

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

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