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is the force with which a
syllable is produced

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

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

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

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

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 _______

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

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

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 ________

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

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

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

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

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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

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

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

Language interference
refers to _________.

The word ‘lazy’ is a
for ‘hardworking’

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

28. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

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

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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

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

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

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

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

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

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

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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