LIN112

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

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________

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

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?

Codification is the
stage of language planning

_________ is an example
of a lingua franca

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

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

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

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

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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

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

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

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

is the study of language as
an object.

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

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

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

The main difference
between consonant and
sounds is the obstruction in
the flow of air from the
lungs

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

The function word in the
statement, "Lets make
America great again" is

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

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

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

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

The output of
is the input into phonology

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

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

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

Sign Languages
__________

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

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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

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 _____ are not found in
the English sound system

______ is the process of
determining the time of
separation of genetically
related languages

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

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

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

are produced with a partial
obstruction in the flow of air
such that air passes
through a narrow passage
with some noise.

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

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

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