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The study of differences in
the way people speak
based on variables such as
age, education, ethnicity is
called ______

The word for 'hospital' in
Hausa is 'asibiti' an
example of

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 ________

Nigeria uses the
sign language

Words like "mugu, bam,
swagger" are examples of
in Nigerian English

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

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

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

In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is
the

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

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

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

__________ was a Swiss
scholar often referred to as
the father of modern
linguistics

The minimal sound unit that
makes a difference in
meaning is a

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

Which of the following is not
a component of linguistic
knowledge? ________

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

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

refers to when the
languagevariety of a
speaker differs only in
pronounciation

People who make use of
Sign language to
communicate are called

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

The features that all human
languages share in
common are referred to as
________.

Damage to the _________
hemisphere of the brain can
lead to language disorders

Which theory assumes a
certain period for normal
language acquisition or
learning and development
to take place, after which
language learning can only
be achieved with great
difficulty?

are a group of consonants
characterized by lack of
friction or obstruction in
their production.

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

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

Language interference
refers to _________.

A sufficient corpus of
description of words in a
language can constitute a

______ is the process of
determining the time of
separation of genetically
related languages

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/
is the

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

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

The use of a set of
alphabets to represent
distinctive sounds is called
an

That all languages mark
plural is an example of a
language

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

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

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

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

One of these is an aveolar
stop ________

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

45. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is

The meaning an expression
has over and above its
conceptual content is
known as ______

The
_is the smallest minimal
unit of language that can be
pronounced in isolation

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

When pitch of individual
vowels or syllables is used
to make a difference in
meaning of words that have
the same segmental
properties, pitch is said to
be performing a
function

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?