LIN112

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

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

A morpheme that cannot
stand on its own is called a
morpheme

The feature these sounds
have in common is that
they are
sounds [m, n, ɲ]

All the following sounds are
voiceless except ______

Linguistics is a science
because ____________

The control of one side of
the body by the opposite
side of the brain is known
as _______

Ability to recognise the
word order and sentence
structure in a language is
_______ knowledge.

_____________is
concerned with the study of
speech impairment in
children and adults.

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

Which of the following
statements is NOT TRUE
__________

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

The _______ is the basic
unit of phonological study

How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

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

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

Sounds that begin as stops
and end as fricatives are
called
__.

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

_____is a phonological
feature in which all vowels
within a defined unit agree
in one phonetic value.

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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

morphemes are free
morphemes that have
independent dictionary
meaning of their own.

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

One of the following words
has a diphthong
_________.

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

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

refers to the study of the
meaning of language in its
context of use.

The prefix in the word
'restructuring' is

Phonology helps us to
know ___________.

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

The _____ are not found in
the English sound system

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

Which of the following
contains only one
morpheme?

The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

Articulatory phonetics deals
with the study of
___________.

Phonetic transcription is a
form of writing using
________

is the force with which a
syllable is produced

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

In the word 'vandalism',
'ism' is a _________

The sound [p] is produced
in the
cavity

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

When a language is
stigmatised, it suggests
which of the following
statements about the
speakers of the
language_______

According to Chomsky,
grammar is a native
speakers’
of his/her language

Allophonic sounds are said
to occur in complementary
distribution when they occur
in mutually exclusive
environments that
is,______

refers to cognitive functions
that are primarily localized
to one side of the brain or
the other

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

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

The language centre for
right-handed persons is
located in the ________

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