LIN111

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

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 _______

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

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

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

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

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

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

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

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

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

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

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

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

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

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

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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

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

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

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

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

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

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

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

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

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

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

grammar is another name
for traditional grammar.

The output of
is the input into phonology

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

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

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 _________

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

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

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

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

Every language has a set of
that determine word order

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

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

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