LIN112

The word ‘transcript’ was
formed from the word
'transcription' through a
process of

The control of one side of
the body by the opposite
side of the brain is known
as _______

__________ was a Swiss
scholar often referred to as
the father of modern
linguistics

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

According to Chomsky,
_________is not affected
by memory limitation,
distraction, shift of attention
and errors.

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 ________

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

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

In the word 'vandalism',
'ism' is a _________

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

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

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

_is the object of study for
linguistics

The head of the capitalised
part of the sentence 'The
terrorists hid IN THE
FOREST' is a

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

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

Language interference
refers to _________.

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

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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

The main organ of speech
in the production of vowels
is the

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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 _________

A patient who has
experienced a serious head
injury but is able to respond
to instructions is an
indication that the
side of the brain is still
functioning

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

One of the following
distinguishes human
language from animal
language. Human language
is ________

The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

The origin of linguistics
dates back to ________

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

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

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

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

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

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

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

Sounds that begin as stops
and end as fricatives are
called
__.

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

The manner of articulation
for the consonant sound
[ʤ] is

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

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

A
word is that which
comprises one root
followed by one or more
bound elements

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

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

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

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

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