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_____________is concerned with the study of speech impairment in children and adults.
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What was the concern of early linguistic efforts in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th century? _____
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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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In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/ is the
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[u] is a , back, rounded, short vowel
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One of these is a high, front, rounded vowel _______
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In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is the
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The _______ is the basic unit of phonological study
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According to Chomsky, _________is not affected by memory limitation, distraction, shift of attention and errors.
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All except one of the following are minimal pairs________
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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
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The word ‘asynchronous’ has ________ morphemes
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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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The sound produced when the lower lip meets the upper lip is called_____
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Which theory assumes a certain period for normal language acquisition or learning and development to take place, after which language learning can only be achieved with great difficulty?
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refers to the study of the meaning of language in its context of use.
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The experiment with the chimpanzee called Nim demonstrated that animal communication is ___________
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The main difference between consonant and sounds is the obstruction in the flow of air from the lungs
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Stress is an example of a feature that occurs over an utterance
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How many branches of phonetics are there __________?
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The origin of linguistics dates back to ________
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The meaning an expression has over and above its conceptual content is known as ______
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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
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Which of the following is a complete set of voiceless sounds
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The lingua franca of the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria is English
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One of the following words has a diphthong _________.
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According to Chomsky,________ is the use of language in everyday situations.
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28. The antonym of ‘criticism’ is
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"Its beyond my apprehension” is an example of a speech error called
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The process by which the word ‘pilot’ which functions as a noun is used to function as a verb is called
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Sounds that function as a peak are described as_______
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To put to bed' instead of to give birth' is an example of a
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The process by which oral vowels become nasalized before nasal consonants within the same syllable is called
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Tone performs a function when it distinguishes between sentences that are the same except for the tones they bear.
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The output of is the input into phonology
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The word ‘institutionalisation’ is an example of a _________
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The first phase of linguistics as a science had its focus on________ logic of meaning
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are a group of consonants characterized by lack of friction or obstruction in their production.
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The words ‘berry and bury’, ‘plain and plane’ are examples of words called
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With more than 500 languages, Nigeria is an example of a nation.
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What part of the brain can cause difficulty in speech production if damaged? ________
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The prefix in the word 'restructuring' is
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The orthographic representation of a language is known as ________
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Nigeria uses the sign language
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The use of a set of alphabets to represent distinctive sounds is called an
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The human ability to use language is located in the _________ .
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The history of sign languages dates back to the _______
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The suffix in the word 'impossibility' is
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The word, 'uncommonality' has morphemes
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Sounds produced with vibration in the glottis are described as
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The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [kw] is
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Ability to recognise the word order and sentence structure in a language is _______ knowledge.
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The area of the throat where voice is produced is also called
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is the study of language as an object.
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One of the misconceptions about sign languages is that _________
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Words that characterise a profession like 'stethoscope, syringe, fracture' are examples of
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Which of the following is NOT TRUE of human language? It is ______
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Phonetic transcription is a form of writing using ________
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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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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 ________
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Dental fricatives occur in only one of these languages________
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______________is concerned with the study of the acquisition, use, and loss of language.
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The suffix in the word "entrepreneurship" is
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One of these is a low, back, unrounded vowel ______
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[ɑ:] is a low, back, long vowel
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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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One of the following distinguishes human language from animal language. Human language is ________
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Which of the following is true about language? Language is _______
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Words like "mugu, bam, swagger" are examples of in Nigerian English
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Linguistics in the 20th century was marked by a focus on the development of ________.
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The smallest units of sign languages are called __________
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