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isé + àtó --> ìsáto meaning
‘eight’ is an example of the
process of ______

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

According to Saussure,
is the part of language that
reflects its variant nature

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

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

Ferdinard de Saussure is
called the father of
linguistics

One of these is a voiceless
dental stop _______

The main difference
between consonant and
sounds is the obstruction in
the flow of air from the
lungs

is also known as a “slip of
tongue

Which of the following is not
a fricative sound?

Words that characterise a
profession like
'stethoscope, syringe,
fracture' are examples of

One of the following
distinguishes human
language from animal
language. Human language
is ________

stress is the type of stress
that is produced with a
maximum breath force

Which of the statements
below is FALSE about all
languages? ______

A grammatical rule in
English that says you
cannot use two negatives in
a sentence is an example
of a
rule

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________

Stress is an example of a
feature that occurs over an
utterance

The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

The origin of linguistics
dates back to ________

The experiment with the
chimpanzee called Nim
demonstrated that animal
communication is
___________

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

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

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.

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

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

All the following sounds are
voiced except _______

The statement 'He is a
backstabber' can be only be
understood in ________

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

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

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

Which of the following
category of sounds is
absent from the English
sound system?________

The sound [m] is produced
in the
cavity

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 organ of speech that
makes sounds voiced or
voiceless is the

The process by which oral
vowels become nasalized
before nasal consonants
within the same syllable is
called

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

The branch of
linguistics that studies the
internal structure of words
and how words are formed
in a language is
called_________.

The action of pushing out of
air from the lungs is
referred to as
__.

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

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

The smallest units of sign
languages are called
__________

The root morpheme of the
word "enterprising" is

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

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

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

Nigeria uses the
sign language

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