LIN112

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

Allophonic sounds are said
to occur in complementary
distribution when they occur
in mutually exclusive
environments that
is,______

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

__________ is concerned
with the study of how the
brain processes language

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

One of these is a velar
nasal_______

A morpheme that cannot
stand on its own is called a
morpheme

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

When pitch of individual
vowels or syllables is used
to make a difference in
meaning of words that have
the same segmental
properties, pitch is said to
be performing a
function

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

In Yoruba, 'kpana' 'quench
fire'--- > 'kpana kpana' 'fire
fighter' is an example of a
word formation process of
________

One of these is a low, back,
unrounded vowel ______

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

Codification is the
stage of language planning

To put to bed' instead of to
give birth' is an example of
a

"Its beyond my
apprehension” is an
example of a speech error
called

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

The word ‘webinair’ is an
example of _______

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

The morphological process
by which the affix ‘un’ is
attached to the root word
‘happy’ to derive ‘unhappy’
is called
_

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

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

_____________is
concerned with the study of
speech impairment in
children and adults.

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

A sufficient corpus of
description of words in a
language can constitute a

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

Nigeria uses the
sign language

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

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

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

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

Damage to the _________
hemisphere of the brain can
lead to language disorders

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

The distinction between
pairs of words like
'prince/princess', is that of

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 ‘attractive’ is a
for ‘beautiful’.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

What are the conditions a
speech act must meet to be
successful and achieve its
communicative purpose?

The vowel in [bᴈ:d] is a
central
unrounded vowel

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

The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

The ties and connections
which exist within texts
refer to_______

The place of articulation for
the consonant sound [ɲ] is

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

Pitch patterns (low and
high) over phrases and
sentences are known as