LIN 102 CBT PRACTICE

1. 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 _________

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

3.

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

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

6. The sound [p] is produced
in the_____cavity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. Every language has a set of____that determine word order

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

19. Codification is the____stage of language planning

20. The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

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

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

23. The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

24.

25. The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

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

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

28. Sign Languages
__________

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

30. Another term for a free
morpheme is

31. Nigeria uses the______sign language

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

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

34.

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

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

37. 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

38. 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 ________

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

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