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

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

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

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

Nigeria uses the
sign language

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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

The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

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

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

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

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

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

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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
?

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

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

The root morpheme of the
word 'restructure' is

Language interference
refers to _________.

Which of these is a set of
bilabials ________?

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

refers to forms that
charaterise the speech of
individual speakers

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 ________

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

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

The minimal unit of study in
morphology is

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

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

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

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

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

The word ‘asynchronous’
has ________ morphemes

Chinese in China and
French in France are
examples of
languages

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

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

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

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

The output of
is the input into phonology

The process by which the
word ‘pilot’ which functions
as a noun is used to
function as a verb is called

Sounds produced with
vibration in the glottis are
described as

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

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 _______

_is the object of study for
linguistics

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

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

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

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

The earliest recorded
linguistic efforts in Nigeria
were by the _______

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

The prefix in the word
'restructuring' is

[ʌ] is exclusive to the
language

The
houses the vocal cords

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

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

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

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

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

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

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

English sounds are
produced by the
airstream mechanism

70. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is