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

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

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

The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

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

The place of articulation for
consonant [mw] which
occurs in Urhobo language
in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is
nasal

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

Variants of a phoneme are
called

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

In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is
the

What was the concern of
early linguistic efforts in
Nigeria in the late 19th and
early 20th century? _____

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

The feature these sounds
have in common is that
they are
sounds [m, n, ɲ]

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

One of these is a high,
front, rounded vowel
_______

The process by which the
word ‘pilot’ which functions
as a noun is used to
function as a verb is called

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

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

The difference between 'go
slow', traffic jam', and heavy
traffic flow' is a
difference

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

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

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

The human ability to use
language is located in the
_________ .

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

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

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

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

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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

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

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 ________

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

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

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

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

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

Another term for the
communicative purpose of
an expression is _______

Linguistics in the 20th
century was marked by a
focus on the development
of ________.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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

The history of sign
languages dates back to
the _______

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

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

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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

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

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

is the study of language as
an object.

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

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

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

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

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

What branch of linguistics
refers to the study of words
and their meaningful parts?

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

The ties and connections
which exist within texts
refer to_______

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

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

Which theory assumes a
certain period for normal
language acquisition or
learning and development
to take place, after which
language learning can only
be achieved with great
difficulty?