LIN112



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LIN112

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1.

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

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2.

A ________grammar states
explicitly the rules of the
language, list the words
and their pronunciations

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3.

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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4.

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

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5.

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

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6.

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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7.

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

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8.

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

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9.

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 _______

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10.

A proposal to change the
ways in which a language is
to be used in society is part
of ___________

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11.

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

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12.

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 ________

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13.

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

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14.

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

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15.

-ee' in 'mentee' is an
example of a _______
morpheme

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16.

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

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17.

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

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18.

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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19.

A
word is that which
comprises one root
followed by one or more
bound elements

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20.

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

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21.

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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22.

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

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23.

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

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24.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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25.

Language interference
refers to _________.

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26.

The word ‘lazy’ is a
for ‘hardworking’

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27.

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

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28. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

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29.

Which of the theories of the
origin of language explains
using differences in the
biological features between
man and animals?
___________

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30.

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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31.

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

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32.

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

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33.

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

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34.

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

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35.

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

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36.

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

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37.

The process of
involves the loss of a sound
segment or suprasegment
when morphemes or words
are combined together.

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38.

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

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39.

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

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40.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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41.

According to Chomsky,
_________is not affected
by memory limitation,
distraction, shift of attention
and errors.

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42.

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

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43.

The branch of
linguistics that studies the
internal structure of words
and how words are formed
in a language is
called_________.

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44.

Four Greek scholars who
contributed to the growth of
linguistics are _________.

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45.

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

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46.

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

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47.

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

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48.

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

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49.

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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50.

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

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