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The presence of words like 'restaurant, salon, fillet" in English is a result of
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The word for 'hospital' in Hausa is 'asibiti' an example of
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of articulation describes where sounds are produced.
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__________ was a Swiss scholar often referred to as the father of modern linguistics
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In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is the
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Phonetic transcription is a form of writing using ________
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The suffix in the word 'impossibility' is
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One of the following distinguishes human language from animal language. Human language is ________
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Nigeria uses the sign language
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The is the most important articulator in vowel production.
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The suffix in the word "entrepreneurship" is
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Sociolinguistics is concerned with the study of the relationship between language and
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Stress is an example of a feature that occurs over an utterance
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Hauwa acquired Nigerian Pidgin alongside Hausa, therefore she is a
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grammar is another name for traditional grammar.
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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What characterised the first phase of growth of linguistics as a discipline?
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Alveolar sounds are produced through contact between the teeth and the
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"Its beyond my apprehension” is an example of a speech error called
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Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in the statement ‘The suspect was remanded in custody’ are examples of ______.
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_is the object of study for linguistics
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All except one of these statements is not true ___________
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According to English syntactic rules, the sentence, ‘They has gone’ is an sentence.
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Language interference refers to _________.
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Pitch patterns (low and high) over phrases and sentences are known as
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Damage to ________part of the brain can cause speech comprehension difficulties.
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Ferdinard de Saussure is called the father of linguistics
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Which of the theories of the origin of language explains using differences in the biological features between man and animals? ___________
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Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE __________
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All the following sounds are voiced except _______
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Codification is the stage of language planning
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Linguists have categorised the various dimensions of meaning into three major classes namely denotative, associative and meaning.
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In English, 'biographical' is an example of a ________
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Which of the following does not feature in the production of consonants?
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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 ________
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This utterance is an example of ____'Shut that door, now!'
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Sounds produced with vibration in the glottis are described as
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What are the conditions a speech act must meet to be successful and achieve its communicative purpose?
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affixes are those affixes that can alter the meaning of the words to which they are attached.
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The basic minimal unit of grammatical analysis in a language is the ________
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Which of the following contains only one morpheme?
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The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [ʤ] is
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Linguistics in the 20th century was marked by a focus on the development of ________.
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Dental fricatives occur in only one of these languages________
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The function word in the sentence, "Kola passed his exams" is __.
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The sound produced when the lower lip meets the upper lip is called_____
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Which of the statements below is FALSE about all languages? ______
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Another term for the communicative purpose of an expression is _______
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When a language is stigmatised, it suggests which of the following statements about the speakers of the language_______
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The word ‘asynchronous’ has ________ morphemes
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