FUOYE LIN 102 CBT Practice

1. The organ of speech that
makes sounds voiced or
voiceless is the

2. Sign Languages
__________

3. The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

4. The orthographic
representation of a
language is known as
________

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

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

7. According to Chomsky,
_________is not affected
by memory limitation,
distraction, shift of attention
and errors.

8. "Its beyond my
apprehension” is an
example of a speech error
called

9. 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 _________

10. Codification is the____stage of language planning

11. What are the conditions a
speech act must meet to be
successful and achieve its
communicative purpose?

12.

13. The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

14. 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

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

16. How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

17. Another term for a free
morpheme is

18. The phrase ‘Jamb question’
in Don’t ask me ‘jamb
question’ is an example of a
________

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

20. Every language has a set of____that determine word order

21. One of the following is a
correct analysis for ‘The
suicide bomber put the
bomb in a bag’
________________

22. Sounds produced with the
stream of air flowing out of
the mouth without
obstruction are________

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

24. The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

25. Nigeria uses the______sign language

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

27. What branch of linguistics
refers to the study of words
and their meaningful parts?

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

29. All of the following
statements are TRUE of
human language EXCEPT
ONE. All languages
_________

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

31. 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 ________

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

33. _____affixes are those affixes that
can alter the meaning of the
words to which they are
attached.

34.

35. Pitch patterns (low and
high) over phrases and
sentences are known as____

36.

37. The features that all human
languages share in
common are referred to as
________.

38. The sound [p] is produced
in the_____cavity

39. Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of_____of English

40. _____Tone performs a
function when it
distinguishes between
sentences that are the
same except for the tones
they bear.