LIN112

According to Chomsky,
grammar is a native
speakers’
of his/her language

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

A proposal to change the
ways in which a language is
to be used in society is part
of ___________

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

One of these is a velar
nasal_______

The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

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

The word ‘webinair’ is an
example of _______

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

The sound produced when
the lower lip meets the
upper lip is called_____

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

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 _________

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

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

__________ is concerned
with the study of how the
brain processes language

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

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

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

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

With more than 500
languages, Nigeria is an
example of a
nation.

The area of the throat
where voice is produced is
also called

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

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

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

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

This utterance is an
example of ____'The
accused is hereby
pronounced guilty'.

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The science of designing
machines that simulate
human intelligence is
known as _________

refers to when the
languagevariety of a
speaker differs only in
pronounciation

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

Phonetic transcription is a
form of writing using
________

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

The origin of linguistics
dates back to ________

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

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