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LIN111

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1.

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

2 / 50

2.

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 _______

3 / 50

3.

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

4 / 50

4.

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

5 / 50

5.

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

6 / 50

6.

The distinction between
langue and parole as an
explanation to language
phenomenon is associated
with _______

7 / 50

7.

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

8 / 50

8.

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

9 / 50

9.

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

10 / 50

10.

The first phase of linguistics
as a science had its focus
on________ logic of
meaning

11 / 50

11.

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

12 / 50

12.

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

13 / 50

13.

Tone performs a
function when it
distinguishes between
sentences that are the
same except for the tones
they bear.

14 / 50

14.

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

15 / 50

15.

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

16 / 50

16.

In Hausa, ‘asibiti’ meaning
‘hospital’ is an example of
_______

17 / 50

17.

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

18 / 50

18.

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

19 / 50

19.

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

20 / 50

20.

______________is
concerned with the study of
the acquisition, use, and
loss of language.

21 / 50

21.

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

22 / 50

22.

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

23 / 50

23.

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

24 / 50

24.

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

25 / 50

25.

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

26 / 50

26.

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

27 / 50

27.

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

28 / 50

28.

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

29 / 50

29.

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

30 / 50

30.

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

31 / 50

31.

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

32 / 50

32.

The output of
is the input into phonology

33 / 50

33.

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

34 / 50

34.

An example of a speech
impairment that requires
the use of sign language is
________

35 / 50

35.

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 _________

36 / 50

36.

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

37 / 50

37.

The process by which oral
vowels become nasalized
before nasal consonants
within the same syllable is
called

38 / 50

38.

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

39 / 50

39.

When a language is
stigmatised, it suggests
which of the following
statements about the
speakers of the
language_______

40 / 50

40.

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

41 / 50

41.

How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

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42.

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

43 / 50

43.

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

44 / 50

44.

Pitch patterns (low and
high) over phrases and
sentences are known as

45 / 50

45.

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

46 / 50

46.

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

47 / 50

47.

Codification is the
stage of language planning

48 / 50

48.

The morphological process
by which the affix ‘un’ is
attached to the root word
‘happy’ to derive ‘unhappy’
is called
_

49 / 50

49.

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

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50.

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

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