LIN112

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

A diachronic description of
a language is concerned
with the historical
development of the
language and the structural
changes that have taken
place in it. TRUE OR
FALSE
?

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

Language interference
refers to _________.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

[u] is a
, back, rounded, short
vowel

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

The word ‘attractive’ is a
for ‘beautiful’.

The difference between 'go
slow', traffic jam', and heavy
traffic flow' is a
difference

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

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

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

The output of
is the input into phonology

The type of sounds
produced by a closed glottis
forcing air pressure in the
mouth that results in loud
sound when the air is
released suddenly are
called ________

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

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

The first phase of linguistics
as a science had its focus
on________ logic of
meaning

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

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

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

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 _________

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

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

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

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

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

Ability to recognise the
word order and sentence
structure in a language is
_______ knowledge.

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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

Another term for a free
morpheme is

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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

One of these is a high,
front, rounded vowel
_______

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

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

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

What part of the brain can
cause difficulty in speech
production if damaged?
________

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

Words that characterise a
profession like
'stethoscope, syringe,
fracture' are examples of

This utterance is an
example of ____'Shut that
door, now!'

All except one of these
statements is not true
___________

The prefix in the word
'restructuring' is