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The organs of speech in the production of palatal sounds are the tongue and the
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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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The control of one side of the body by the opposite side of the brain is known as _______
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That all languages mark plural is an example of a language
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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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The statement 'He is a backstabber' can be only be understood in ________
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All the following sounds are voiced except _______
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__________ is concerned with the study of how the brain processes language
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Sounds that begin as stops and end as fricatives are called __.
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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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Sounds that function as a peak are described as_______
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Which of the following best describes Phonetics _______?
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Which of the following is a complete set of voiceless sounds
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Alveolar sounds are produced through contact between the teeth and the
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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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The type of stress on a syllable that is produced with a maximum force of breath is called________
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The houses the vocal cords
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English is said to have stress-timed rhythm because in connected speech,__________
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One of the following is a correct analysis for ‘The suicide bomber put the bomb in a bag’ ________________
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The is the most important articulator in vowel production.
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Which of the following is not a fricative sound?
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Allophonic sounds are said to occur in complementary distribution when they occur in mutually exclusive environments that is,______
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The output of is the input into phonology
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Linguistics in the 20th century was marked by a focus on the development of ________.
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The orthographic representation of a language is known as ________
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The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [kw] is
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According to Chomsky, _________is not affected by memory limitation, distraction, shift of attention and errors.
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Acoustic phonetics deals with __________.
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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The word ‘asynchronous’ has ________ morphemes
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Codification is the stage of language planning
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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 phrase ‘Jamb question’ in Don’t ask me ‘jamb question’ is an example of a ________
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This utterance is an example of ____'Shut that door, now!'
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The distinction between pairs of words like 'prince/princess', is that of
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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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Sign Languages __________
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All of the following statements are TRUE of human language EXCEPT ONE. All languages _________
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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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According to Saussure, is the part of language that reflects its variant nature
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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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The organ of speech that makes sounds voiced or voiceless is the
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Phonology helps us to know ___________.
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One of these is a high, front, rounded vowel _______
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The suffix in the word "entrepreneurship" is
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refers to forms that charaterise the speech of individual speakers
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Articulatory phonetics deals with the study of ___________.
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The smallest units of sign languages are called __________
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English sounds are produced by the airstream mechanism
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