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1.

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

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2.

Which of the following is
NOT TRUE of human
language? It is ______

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3.

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

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4.

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

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5.

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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6.

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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7.

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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8.

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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9.

The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

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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.

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

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12.

The area of the throat
where voice is produced is
also called

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13.

What characterised the first
phase of growth of
linguistics as a discipline?

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14.

The word ‘transcript’ was
formed from the word
'transcription' through a
process of

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15.

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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16.

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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17.

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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18.

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

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19.

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

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20.

Language interference
refers to _________.

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21.

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

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22.

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

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23.

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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24.

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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25.

The sound produced when
the lower lip meets the
upper lip is called_____

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26.

Sociolinguistics is
concerned with the study of
the relationship between
language and

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27.

is that aspect of a speaker's
grammar an represents
his/her ability to produce
grammatically correct
sentences

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28.

One of these is a low, back,
unrounded vowel ______

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29.

The place of articulation for
the consonant sound [ð] is

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30.

Grammar is a system that
is used to generate an
number of sentences

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31.

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

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32.

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

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33.

According to English
syntactic rules, the
sentence, ‘They has gone’
is an
sentence.

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34.

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

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35.

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

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36.

Four Greek scholars who
contributed to the growth of
linguistics are _________.

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37.

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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38.

The function word in the
statement, "Lets make
America great again" is

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39.

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

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40.

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

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41.

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

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42.

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

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43.

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

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44.

With more than 500
languages, Nigeria is an
example of a
nation.

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45.

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

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46.

The output of
is the input into phonology

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47.

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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48.

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

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49.

[u] is a
, back, rounded, short
vowel

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50.

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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51.

_is the object of study for
linguistics

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52.

A
is a pidgin that has
acquired native speakers or
first language speakers

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53.

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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54.

Which of the following is
true about language?
Language is _______

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55.

A speaker's use of his/her
language in interaction is
called

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56.

The earliest recorded
linguistic efforts in Nigeria
were by the _______

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57.

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

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58.

The prefix in the word
'restructuring' is

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59.

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

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60.

The
houses the vocal cords

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61.

The presence of words like
'restaurant, salon, fillet" in
English is a result of

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62.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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63.

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

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64.

Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in
the statement ‘The suspect
was remanded in custody’
are examples of ______.

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65.

This utterance is an
example of ____'The
accused is hereby
pronounced guilty'.

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66.

A
word is that which
comprises one root
followed by one or more
bound elements

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67.

Which term refers to the
arrangement of words into
phrases and sentences?

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68.

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

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69.

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

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70. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

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