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The sound produced when the lower lip meets the upper lip is called_____
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People who make use of Sign language to communicate are called
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______ is the process of determining the time of separation of genetically related languages
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Which of the following category of sounds is absent from the English sound system?________
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All the following sounds are voiced except _______
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Which of the maxims relates to how something is said in a talk exchange?
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The word, 'uncommonality' has morphemes
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Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in the statement ‘The suspect was remanded in custody’ are examples of ______.
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That all languages mark plural is an example of a language
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Phonology helps us to know ___________.
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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The word 'nefariousness' has _____ morphemes
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_____________is concerned with the study of speech impairment in children and adults.
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One of these is a velar nasal_______
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Sounds that function as a peak are described as_______
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_is the object of study for linguistics
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The ties and connections which exist within texts refer to_______
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The word for 'hospital' in Hausa is 'asibiti' an example of
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Sociolinguistics is concerned with the study of the relationship between language and
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The word ‘webinair’ is an example of _______
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All except one of these statements is not true ___________
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The first phase of linguistics as a science had its focus on________ logic of meaning
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The experiment with the chimpanzee called Nim demonstrated that animal communication is ___________
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The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [ʤ] is
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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________
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Linguists have categorised the various dimensions of meaning into three major classes namely denotative, associative and meaning.
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The sound [m] is produced in the cavity
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The _______ is the basic unit of phonological study
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The minimal sound unit that makes a difference in meaning is a
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Which of the following is a complete set of voiceless sounds
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Which of the following does not feature in the production of consonants?
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The function word in the statement, "Lets make America great again" is
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In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is the
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The root morpheme of the word "enterprising" is
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The words ‘berry and bury’, ‘plain and plane’ are examples of words called
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The process by which oral vowels become nasalized before nasal consonants within the same syllable is called
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grammar is another name for traditional grammar.
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Dental fricatives occur in only one of these languages________
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Sounds produced with vibration in the glottis are described as
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A sufficient corpus of description of words in a language can constitute a
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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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In Yoruba, 'kpana' 'quench fire'--- > 'kpana kpana' 'fire fighter' is an example of a word formation process of ________
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Another term for a free morpheme is
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44. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is
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Damage to the _________ hemisphere of the brain can lead to language disorders
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[u] is a , back, rounded, short vowel
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Nigeria uses the sign language
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In Hausa, ‘farin ciki’ meaning ‘happiness’ is an example of a_____
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Another term for the communicative purpose of an expression is _______
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Languages that descended from the same language are called ______
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