FUOYE LIN 102 CBT Practice

1.

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

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

4. Sign Languages
__________

5. 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 _________

6.

7. The sound [p] is produced
in the_____cavity

8. The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

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

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

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

12. Every language has a set of____that determine word order

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

14. 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 ________

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

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

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

18.

19. Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of_____of English

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

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

22. Another term for a free
morpheme is

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

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

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

26. Codification is the____stage of language planning

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

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

29. inter’ in the word
‘interconnectivity’ is an
example of a _______

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

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

32. How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

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

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

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

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

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

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

39. Nigeria uses the______sign language

40. The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the