LIN 102 CBT PRACTICE

1. The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

2. How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

3. 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 _________

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

5. Sign Languages
__________

6. This utterance is an
example of ____'Shut that
door, now!'

7. The sound [p] is produced
in the_____cavity

8. Every language has a set of____that determine word order

9. The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

10. The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

11. Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of_____of English

12. Codification is the____stage of language planning

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

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

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

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

17. Another term for a free
morpheme is

18. 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 ________

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

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

21.

22. 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

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

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

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

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

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

28. A speaker's use of his/her
language in interaction is
called

29. To put to bed' instead of to
give birth' is an example of
a

30. The word
‘institutionalisation’ is an
example of a _________

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

32. Nigeria uses the______sign language

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

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

35. The language centre for
right-handed persons is
located in the _____

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

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

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

39.

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