LIN112

To say 'cerfiticate' instead
of 'certificate' is an example
of _________________

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

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

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

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

The origin of linguistics
dates back to ________

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

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

inter’ in the word
‘interconnectivity’ is an
example of a _______

According to Chomsky,
_________is not affected
by memory limitation,
distraction, shift of attention
and errors.

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

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

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

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

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

The word for 'hospital' in
Hausa is 'asibiti' an
example of

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

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

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

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

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

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

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

The phenomenon in the
example 'Gaskiya, gidan
belongs to a friend' is called

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

31. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

Sociolinguistics is
concerned with the study of
the relationship between
language and

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

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?

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

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

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

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

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

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

Codification is the
stage of language planning

Variants of a phoneme are
called

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

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

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

The manner of articulation
for the consonant sound
[kw] is

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.