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affixes can change the word class (part of speech) of the word to which they are attached.
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Which of the following is NOT TRUE of human language? It is ______
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All the following sounds are voiceless except ______
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affixes are those affixes that can alter the meaning of the words to which they are attached.
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Nigeria uses the sign language
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The word ‘institutionalisation’ is an example of a _________
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Dental fricatives occur in only one of these languages________
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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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The minimal meaningful unit of grammatical analysis is the
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A proposal to change the ways in which a language is to be used in society is part of ___________
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Tone performs a function when it distinguishes between sentences that are the same except for the tones they bear.
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The area of the throat where voice is produced is also called
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What characterised the first phase of growth of linguistics as a discipline?
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The word ‘transcript’ was formed from the word 'transcription' through a process of
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Acoustic phonetics deals with __________.
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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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Hauwa acquired Nigerian Pidgin alongside Hausa, therefore she is a
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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The root morpheme of the word 'restructure' is
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Language interference refers to _________.
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Which of these is a set of bilabials ________?
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Which of the following may not function as the peak of a syllable?
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refers to forms that charaterise the speech of individual speakers
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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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The sound produced when the lower lip meets the upper lip is called_____
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Sociolinguistics is concerned with the study of the relationship between language and
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is that aspect of a speaker's grammar an represents his/her ability to produce grammatically correct sentences
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One of these is a low, back, unrounded vowel ______
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The place of articulation for the consonant sound [ð] is
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Grammar is a system that is used to generate an number of sentences
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One of the following is TRUE of vowel sound segments.
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Indian English and Australian English are examples of of English
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According to English syntactic rules, the sentence, ‘They has gone’ is an sentence.
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The minimal unit of study in morphology is
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According to Chomsky, _________is not affected by memory limitation, distraction, shift of attention and errors.
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Four Greek scholars who contributed to the growth of linguistics are _________.
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The smallest units of sign languages are called __________
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The function word in the statement, "Lets make America great again" is
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Which of the following do not occur in final positions in words?
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The word ‘asynchronous’ has ________ morphemes
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Chinese in China and French in France are examples of languages
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One of these is a voiceless dental stop _______
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The type of stress on a syllable that is produced with a maximum force of breath is called________
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With more than 500 languages, Nigeria is an example of a nation.
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What branch of linguistics refers to the study of words and their meaningful parts?
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The output of is the input into phonology
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The process by which the word ‘pilot’ which functions as a noun is used to function as a verb is called
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Sounds produced with vibration in the glottis are described as
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[u] is a , back, rounded, short vowel
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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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_is the object of study for linguistics
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A is a pidgin that has acquired native speakers or first language speakers
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A native speaker of Yoruba who knows that tone can make a difference in the meaning of two words that have the same spelling is said to have _______ knowledge of Yoruba
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Which of the following is true about language? Language is _______
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A speaker's use of his/her language in interaction is called
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The earliest recorded linguistic efforts in Nigeria were by the _______
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In Hausa, ‘asibiti’ meaning ‘hospital’ is an example of _______
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The prefix in the word 'restructuring' is
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[ʌ] is exclusive to the language
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The houses the vocal cords
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The presence of words like 'restaurant, salon, fillet" in English is a result of
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One of the misconceptions about sign languages is that _________
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All except one of the following are minimal pairs________
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Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in the statement ‘The suspect was remanded in custody’ are examples of ______.
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This utterance is an example of ____'The accused is hereby pronounced guilty'.
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A word is that which comprises one root followed by one or more bound elements
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Which term refers to the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences?
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The process of involves the loss of a sound segment or suprasegment when morphemes or words are combined together.
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English sounds are produced by the airstream mechanism
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70. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is
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