LIN112

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

In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is
the

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

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

_________ is an example
of a lingua franca

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

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

The statement 'He is a
backstabber' can be only be
understood in ________

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

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

The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

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

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

A grammatical rule in
English that says you
cannot use two negatives in
a sentence is an example
of a
rule

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

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

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

Grammar is a system that
is used to generate an
number of sentences

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

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

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is
NOT TRUE of human
language? It is ______

Variants of a phoneme are
called

In English, 'biographical' is
an example of a ________

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

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

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

Which of the following may
not function as the peak of
a syllable?

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

Tone performs a
function when it
distinguishes between
sentences that are the
same except for the tones
they bear.

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

The use of a set of
alphabets to represent
distinctive sounds is called
an

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

Words like "mugu, bam,
swagger" are examples of
in Nigerian English

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

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

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

Which of the following is
true about language?
Language is _______

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

Sign Languages
__________