LIN112



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LIN112

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1.

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

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2.

Ability to recognise the
word order and sentence
structure in a language is
_______ knowledge.

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3.

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

4 / 50

4.

According to Saussure,
is the part of language that
reflects its variant nature

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5.

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

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6.

Four Greek scholars who
contributed to the growth of
linguistics are _________.

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7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

Allophonic sounds are said
to occur in complementary
distribution when they occur
in mutually exclusive
environments that
is,______

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10.

A diachronic description of
a language is concerned
with the historical
development of the
language and the structural
changes that have taken
place in it. TRUE OR
FALSE
?

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11.

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

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12.

Which of the following
category of sounds is
absent from the English
sound system?________

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13.

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

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14.

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

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15.

The word ‘attractive’ is a
for ‘beautiful’.

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16.

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

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17.

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

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18.

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

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19.

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

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20.

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 ________

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21.

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

22 / 50

22.

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 _______

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23.

The presence of words like
'restaurant, salon, fillet" in
English is a result of

24 / 50

24.

All of the following
statements are TRUE of
human language EXCEPT
ONE. All languages
_________

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25.

Stress is an example of a
feature that occurs over an
utterance

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26.

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

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27.

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

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28.

The features that all human
languages share in
common are referred to as
________.

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29.

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

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30.

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

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31.

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

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32.

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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33.

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

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34.

The co-existence of two
different forms of language
in a society--often a "high"
and "low" or "official" and
"lingua franca" form--is
called

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35.

Language is written using a
system of arbitrary and
signs

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36.

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

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37.

In Hausa, ‘farin ciki’
meaning ‘happiness’ is an
example of a_____

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38.

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

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39.

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

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40.

A sufficient corpus of
description of words in a
language can constitute a

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41.

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

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42.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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43.

Linguistics is a science
because ____________

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44.

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

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45.

The effect that an
illocutionary act has on a
hearer is referred to
as______

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46.

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

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47.

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

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48.

One of the following is a
correct analysis for ‘The
suicide bomber put the
bomb in a bag’
________________

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49.

Damage to ________part
of the brain can cause
speech comprehension
difficulties.

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50.

Which of the following do
not occur in final positions
in words?

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