LIN112

_is the object of study for
linguistics

A speaker's use of his/her
language in interaction is
called

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

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

The earliest recorded
linguistic efforts in Nigeria
were by the _______

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

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

Sociolinguistics is
concerned with the study of
the relationship between
language and

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

To say 'cerfiticate' instead
of 'certificate' is an example
of _________________

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

Language interference
refers to _________.

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

The action of pushing out of
air from the lungs is
referred to as
__.

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

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

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

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

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

21. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

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

The
houses the vocal cords

The statement, "I am
coming" instead of "I'll be
back" is an example of
language

English is said to have
stress-timed rhythm
because in connected
speech,__________

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

The presence of words like
'restaurant, salon, fillet" in
English is a result of

The word ‘webinair’ is an
example of _______

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

The basic minimal unit of
grammatical analysis in a
language is the ________

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

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

The organ of speech that
makes sounds voiced or
voiceless is the

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 ________

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

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

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

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

When a language is
stigmatised, it suggests
which of the following
statements about the
speakers of the
language_______

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

An example of a speech
impairment that requires
the use of sign language is
________

affixes can change the
word class (part of speech)
of the word to which they
are attached.

The main difference
between consonant and
sounds is the obstruction in
the flow of air from the
lungs

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 ________

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

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

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 _______