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The presence of words like 'restaurant, salon, fillet" in English is a result of
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The origin of linguistics dates back to ________
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The place of articulation for the consonant sound [ɲ] is
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The function word in the sentence, "Kola passed his exams" is __.
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The word ‘webinair’ is an example of _______
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The statement, “All languages have consonant and vowel sounds” is an example of a language
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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 use of a set of alphabets to represent distinctive sounds is called an
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The place of articulation for consonant [mw] which occurs in Urhobo language in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is nasal
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The head of the capitalised part of the sentence 'The terrorists hid IN THE FOREST' is a
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The history of sign languages dates back to the _______
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stress is the type of stress that is produced with a maximum breath force
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The process of involves the loss of a sound segment or suprasegment when morphemes or words are combined together.
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According to Saussure, is the part of language that reflects its variant nature
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Linguists have categorised the various dimensions of meaning into three major classes namely denotative, associative and meaning.
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According to Chomsky, _________is not affected by memory limitation, distraction, shift of attention and errors.
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The houses the vocal cords
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_____is a phonological feature in which all vowels within a defined unit agree in one phonetic value.
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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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Which of the following may not function as the peak of a syllable?
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The basic minimal unit of grammatical analysis in a language is the ________
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The lingua franca of the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria is English
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The words ‘berry and bury’, ‘plain and plane’ are examples of words called
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A grammatical rule in English that says you cannot use two negatives in a sentence is an example of a rule
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Which of the statements below is FALSE about all languages? ______
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With more than 500 languages, Nigeria is an example of a nation.
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In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is the
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The statement, "I am coming" instead of "I'll be back" is an example of language
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How many branches of phonetics are there __________?
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The word ‘transcript’ was formed from the word 'transcription' through a process of
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Which of the following contains only one morpheme?
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The language centre for right-handed persons is located in the ________
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_____________is concerned with the study of speech impairment in children and adults.
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Language is written using a system of arbitrary and signs
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The sound [m] is produced in the cavity
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"Its beyond my apprehension” is an example of a speech error called
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The word for 'hospital' in Hausa is 'asibiti' an example of
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Which of the following does not feature in the production of vowels?
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All except one of the following are minimal pairs________
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The morphological process by which the affix ‘un’ is attached to the root word ‘happy’ to derive ‘unhappy’ is called _
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Which of the following is a complete set of voiceless sounds
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In Ikwere dialect spoken in Rivers State, the words [risi] and [riʃi] both mean ‘head’. In other words, the use of consonant sound [s] or [ʃ] does not change the meaning of the word. Therefore, both sounds are said to be in _________
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The statement 'He is a backstabber' can be only be understood in ________
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Suspect’ and ‘custody’ in the statement ‘The suspect was remanded in custody’ are examples of ______.
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Which term refers to the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences?
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The orthographic representation of a language is known as ________
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is that aspect of a speaker's grammar an represents his/her ability to produce grammatically correct sentences
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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 ?
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One of these is an aveolar stop ________
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One of the following words has a diphthong _________.
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