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Which of the following does not feature in the production of consonants?
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Ability to recognise the word order and sentence structure in a language is _______ knowledge.
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The place of articulation for consonant [mw] which occurs in Urhobo language in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is nasal
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According to Saussure, is the part of language that reflects its variant nature
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The statement 'He is a backstabber' can be only be understood in ________
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Four Greek scholars who contributed to the growth of linguistics are _________.
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_____is a phonological feature in which all vowels within a defined unit agree in one phonetic value.
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Which of the following may not function as the peak of a syllable?
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Allophonic sounds are said to occur in complementary distribution when they occur in mutually exclusive environments that is,______
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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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The main organ of speech in the production of vowels is the
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Which of the following category of sounds is absent from the English sound system?________
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The word, 'innovation' has morphemes
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One of these is a voiceless dental stop _______
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The word ‘attractive’ is a for ‘beautiful’.
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In English, 'biographical' is an example of a ________
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The word 'nefariousness' has _____ morphemes
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One of these is a high, front, rounded vowel _______
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The action of pushing out of air from the lungs is referred to as __.
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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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Which of the theories of the origin of language explains using differences in the biological features between man and animals? ___________
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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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The presence of words like 'restaurant, salon, fillet" in English is a result of
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All of the following statements are TRUE of human language EXCEPT ONE. All languages _________
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Stress is an example of a feature that occurs over an utterance
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The word ‘asynchronous’ has ________ morphemes
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Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in the statement ‘The suspect was remanded in custody’ are examples of ______.
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The features that all human languages share in common are referred to as ________.
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refers to the study of the meaning of language in its context of use.
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According to English syntactic rules, the sentence, ‘They has gone’ is an sentence.
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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The word ‘institutionalisation’ is an example of a _________
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What characterised the first phase of growth of linguistics as a discipline?
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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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Language is written using a system of arbitrary and signs
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To put to bed' instead of to give birth' is an example of a
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In Hausa, ‘farin ciki’ meaning ‘happiness’ is an example of a_____
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[u] is a , back, rounded, short vowel
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refers to when the languagevariety of a speaker differs only in pronounciation
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A sufficient corpus of description of words in a language can constitute a
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English is said to have stress-timed rhythm because in connected speech,__________
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refers to forms that charaterise the speech of individual speakers
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Linguistics is a science because ____________
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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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The effect that an illocutionary act has on a hearer is referred to as______
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Which of these is a set of bilabials ________?
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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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One of the following is a correct analysis for ‘The suicide bomber put the bomb in a bag’ ________________
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Damage to ________part of the brain can cause speech comprehension difficulties.
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Which of the following do not occur in final positions in words?
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