LIN112

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

______________is
concerned with the study of
the acquisition, use, and
loss of language.

Hauwa acquired Nigerian
Pidgin alongside Hausa,
therefore she is a

How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

English is said to have
stress-timed rhythm
because in connected
speech,__________

The word ‘peculiar’ is a
for ‘odd’

The word ‘attractive’ is a
for ‘beautiful’.

The vowel in [bᴈ:d] is a
central
unrounded vowel

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

One of the following is
TRUE of vowel sound
segments.

One of the misconceptions
about sign languages is
that _________

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

Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of
of English

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

Acoustic phonetics deals
with __________.

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

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

The
is the most important
articulator in vowel
production.

When pitch of individual
vowels or syllables is used
to make a difference in
meaning of words that have
the same segmental
properties, pitch is said to
be performing a
function

Which of the theories of the
origin of language explains
using differences in the
biological features between
man and animals?
___________

The distinction between
pairs of words like
'prince/princess', is that of

Languages that descended
from the same language
are called ______

The word ‘photocopy’ is a
for ‘original’

Another term for a free
morpheme is

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

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

What part of the brain can
cause difficulty in speech
production if damaged?
________

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

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

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

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

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

The meaning an expression
has over and above its
conceptual content is
known as ______

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

All except one of the
following are minimal
pairs________

[ɑ:] is a low, back,
long vowel

In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is
the

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

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

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

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

The word, 'innovation' has
morphemes

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

Which of the following does
not feature in the
production of consonants?

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

Sounds that function as a
peak are described
as_______

The words ‘berry and bury’,
‘plain and plane’ are
examples of words called

The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

Dental fricatives occur in
only one of these
languages________

of articulation describes
where sounds are
produced.