LIN112

refers to the study of the
meaning of language in its
context of use.

In Sign language, the
elements of a sign as
summarized in the acronym
HOLME refers to________

What characterised the first
phase of growth of
linguistics as a discipline?

Damage to the Wernike
area of the brain can cause
difficulties in

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

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 minimal unit of study in
morphology is

The statement, “All
languages have consonant
and vowel sounds” is an
example of a language

The phrase ‘Jamb question’
in Don’t ask me ‘jamb
question’ is an example of a
________

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

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

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

is the study of language as
an object.

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

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

The process of
involves the loss of a sound
segment or suprasegment
when morphemes or words
are combined together.

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

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

Variants of a phoneme are
called

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

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

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 'restructure' is

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

The minimal sound unit that
makes a difference in
meaning is a

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

Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in
the statement ‘The suspect
was remanded in custody’
are examples of ______.

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

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

isé + àtó --> ìsáto meaning
‘eight’ is an example of the
process of ______

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

are produced with a partial
obstruction in the flow of air
such that air passes
through a narrow passage
with some noise.

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

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

The words ‘berry and bury’,
‘plain and plane’ are
examples of words called

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

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 ________

are a group of consonants
characterized by lack of
friction or obstruction in
their production.

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

The
_is the smallest minimal
unit of language that can be
pronounced in isolation

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

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

_________ is an example
of a lingua franca

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

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

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

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

______________is
concerned with the study of
the acquisition, use, and
loss of language.