LIN112

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

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

refers to when the
languagevariety of a
speaker differs only in
pronounciation

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

What was the concern of
early linguistic efforts in
Nigeria in the late 19th and
early 20th century? _____

morphemes are free
morphemes that have
independent dictionary
meaning of their own.

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

The phenomenon in the
example 'Gaskiya, gidan
belongs to a friend' is called

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

The area of the throat
where voice is produced is
also called

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________

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

The language centre for
right-handed persons is
located in the ________

is that aspect of a speaker's
grammar an represents
his/her ability to produce
grammatically correct
sentences

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

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

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

That all languages mark
plural is an example of a
language

Words like "mugu, bam,
swagger" are examples of
in Nigerian English

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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

is the study of language as
an object.

The
houses the vocal cords

The type of stress on a
syllable that is produced
with a maximum force of
breath is called________

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

One of these is a velar
nasal_______

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

A native speaker of Yoruba
who knows that tone can
make a difference in the
meaning of two words that
have the same spelling is
said to have _______
knowledge of Yoruba

Which of the following does
not feature in the
production of vowels?

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

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

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

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

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

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

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

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

Sign Languages
__________

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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

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

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______