LIN 102 CBT PRACTICE

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

2. 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 ________

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

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

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

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

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

8. Another term for a free
morpheme is

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. The minimal meaningful
unit of grammatical analysis
is the

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

17. Sign Languages
__________

18. The suffix in the word
'impossibility' is

19.

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

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

22. How many branches of
phonetics are there
__________?

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

24. The word 'nefariousness'
has _____ morphemes

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

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

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

28.

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

30.

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

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

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

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

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

36. Every language has a set of____that determine word order

37. Nigeria uses the______sign language

38. 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 _________

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

40. Indian English and
Australian English are
examples of_____of English