LIN111



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LIN111

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1.

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

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2.

affixes can change the
word class (part of speech)
of the word to which they
are attached.

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3.

The control of one side of
the body by the opposite
side of the brain is known
as _______

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4.

That all languages mark
plural is an example of a
language

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5.

When the compressed air
in the oral cavity is released
suddenly with an audible
pop sound by the
articulators at the place of
articulation, the sound
produced is________

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6.

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

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7.

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

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8.

__________ is concerned
with the study of how the
brain processes language

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9.

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

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10.

A proposal to change the
ways in which a language is
to be used in society is part
of ___________

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11.

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

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12.

Which of the following best
describes Phonetics
_______?

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13.

Which of the following is a
complete set of voiceless
sounds

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14.

Alveolar sounds are
produced through contact
between the teeth and the

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15.

affixes are those affixes that
can alter the meaning of the
words to which they are
attached.

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16.

The type of stress on a
syllable that is produced
with a maximum force of
breath is called________

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17.

The
houses the vocal cords

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18.

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

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19.

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

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20.

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

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21.

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

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22.

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

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23.

The output of
is the input into phonology

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24.

Linguistics in the 20th
century was marked by a
focus on the development
of ________.

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25.

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

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26.

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

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27.

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

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28.

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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29.

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

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30.

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

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31.

Codification is the
stage of language planning

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32.

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

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33.

The phrase ‘Jamb question’
in Don’t ask me ‘jamb
question’ is an example of a
________

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34.

This utterance is an
example of ____'Shut that
door, now!'

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35.

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

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36.

The lingua franca of the
Niger-Delta area of Nigeria
is
English

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37. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

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38.

Sign Languages
__________

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39.

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

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40.

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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41.

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

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42.

A patient who has
experienced a serious head
injury but is able to respond
to instructions is an
indication that the
side of the brain is still
functioning

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43.

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

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44.

Phonology helps us to
know ___________.

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45.

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

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46.

The suffix in the word
"entrepreneurship" is

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47.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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48.

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

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49.

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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50.

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

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