LIN112

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

The
houses the vocal cords

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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

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

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

Sign Languages
__________

In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is
the

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

Which of the statements
below is FALSE about all
languages? ______

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 experiment with the
chimpanzee called Nim
demonstrated that animal
communication is
___________

Which theory assumes a
certain period for normal
language acquisition or
learning and development
to take place, after which
language learning can only
be achieved with great
difficulty?

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

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

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

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

Language interference
refers to _________.

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

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

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

refers to cognitive functions
that are primarily localized
to one side of the brain or
the other

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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

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

The process by which the
word ‘pilot’ which functions
as a noun is used to
function as a verb is called

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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

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

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

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

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

The word, 'uncommonality'
has
morphemes

The distinction between
langue and parole as an
explanation to language
phenomenon is associated
with _______

The place of articulation for
consonant [mw] which
occurs in Urhobo language
in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is
nasal

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

What branch of linguistics
refers to the study of words
and their meaningful parts?

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

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

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 ________

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

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

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

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

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