Q5 The words ‘berry and bury’, ‘plain and plane’ are examples of words called
Q6 Linguists have categorised the various dimensions of meaning into three major classes namely denotative, associative and meaning.
Q7 A diachronic description of a language is concerned with the
historical development of the language and the structural changes that
have taken place in it. TRUE OR FALSE ?
Q8 Contrastive analysis helps teachers to teach the structure of the
target language by highlighting the differences between the target
language and the language of the students. TRUE OR FALSE __?
Q9 Contrastive analysis of language contributes to second/foreign language teaching. TRUE OR FALSE ?
Q10 In English, stress on lexical items is predictable and is assigned according to grammatical functions. TRUE OR FALSE _?
Q11 Nigerian languages use stress. TRUE or FALSE __?
Q12 Stress is an example of a feature that occurs over an utterance
Q13 The _is the smallest minimal unit of language that can be pronounced in isolation.
Q14 The output of is the input into phonology
Q15 The main difference between consonant and sounds is the obstruction in the flow of air from the lungs.
Q16 The antonym of ‘criticism’ is
Q17 The process by which the word ‘pilot’ which functions as a noun is used to function as a verb is called
Q18 is the force with which a syllable is produced
Q19 When pitch of individual vowels or syllables is used to make a
difference in meaning of words that have the same segmental properties,
pitch is said to be performing a function
Q20 The action of pushing out of air from the lungs is referred to as __.
Q21 morphemes are free morphemes that have independent dictionary meaning of their own.
Q22 Sounds that begin as stops and end as fricatives are called __.
Q23 affixes can change the word class (part of speech) of the word to which they are attached.
Q24 In the word, /ʧit/‘cheat’, /t/ is the .
Q25 In the word /æks/ ‘axe’, /æ/ is the
Q26 In the word /ræp/ 'rap’, /r/ is the
Q27 are produced with a partial obstruction in the flow of air such that air passes through a narrow passage with some noise.
Q28 The is the most important articulator in vowel production.
Q29 The morphological process by which the affix ‘un’ is attached to the root word ‘happy’ to derive ‘unhappy’ is called _.
Q30 The vowel in [bᴈ:d] is a central unrounded vowel
Q31 The word ‘transcript’ was formed from the word 'transcription' through a process of
Q32 affixes are those affixes that can alter the meaning of the words to which they are attached.
Q33 of articulation describes where sounds are produced.
Q34 Tone performs a function when it distinguishes between sentences that are the same except for the tones they bear.
Q35 are a group of consonants characterized by lack of friction or obstruction in their production.
Q36 The process of involves the loss of a sound segment or suprasegment when morphemes or words are combined together.
Q37 The place of articulation for consonant [mw] which occurs in Urhobo language in “ẹ̀mwa” (clothe) is nasal
Q38 [ʌ] is exclusive to the language
Q39 The feature these sounds have in common is that they are sounds [m, n, ɲ]
Q40 [u] is a , back, rounded, short vowel
Q41 [ɑ:] is a low, back, long vowel
Q42 The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [kw] is
Q43 The manner of articulation for the consonant sound [ʤ] is
Q44 The place of articulation for the consonant sound [ð] is
Q45 The place of articulation for the consonant sound [ɲ] is
Q46 The process by which oral vowels become nasalized before nasal consonants within the same syllable is called
Q47 English sounds are produced by the airstream mechanism
Q48 Pitch patterns (low and high) over phrases and sentences are known as
Q49 A word is that which comprises one root followed by one or more bound elements.
Q50 stress is the type of stress that is produced with a maximum breath force.
Q51 Another term for a free morpheme is
Q52 Sounds produced with vibration in the glottis are described as
Q53 The organ of speech that makes sounds voiced or voiceless is the
Q54 The houses the vocal cords
Q55 The area of the throat where voice is produced is also called
Q56 The organs of speech in the production of palatal sounds are the tongue and the
Q57 Alveolar sounds are produced through contact between the teeth and the
Q58 The main organ of speech in the production of vowels is the
Q59 The sound [p] is produced in the cavity
Q60 The sound [m] is produced in the cavity
Q61 _____is a phonological feature in which all vowels within a defined unit agree in one phonetic value.
Q62 Which of the following may not function as the peak of a syllable?
Q63 Which of the following do not occur in final positions in words?
Q64 Allophonic sounds are said to occur in
complementary distribution when they occur in mutually exclusive
environments that is,______
Q65 The _____ are not found in the English sound system.
Q66 Which of the following is not a fricative sound?
Q67 Which of the following category of sounds is absent from the English sound system?________
Q68 The type of sounds produced by a closed glottis
forcing air pressure in the mouth that results in loud sound when the
air is released suddenly are called ________
Q69 The control of one side of the body by the opposite side of the brain is known as _______
Q70 In Hausa, ‘asibiti’ meaning ‘hospital’ is an example of _______
Q71 The word ‘institutionalisation’ is an example of a _________
Q72 Sounds produced with the stream of air flowing out of the mouth without obstruction are_________
Q73 Another term for the communicative purpose of an expression is _______
Q74 The meaning an expression has over and above its conceptual content is known as ______
Q75 The word ‘webinair’ is an example of ________
Q76 One of these is a low, back, unrounded vowel _______
Q77 One of these is a high, front, rounded vowel _______
Q78 One of these is a voiceless dental stop _______
Q79 One of these is a velar nasal_______
Q80 One of these is an aveolar stop ________
Q81 This utterance is an example of ____'Shut that door, now!'
Q82 This utterance is an example of ____'The accused is hereby pronounced guilty'.
Q83 What are the conditions a speech act must meet to be successful and achieve its communicative purpose?
Q84 In Yoruba, 'kpana' 'quench fire'--- > 'kpana
kpana' 'fire fighter' is an example of a word formation process of
________
Q85 In English, 'biographical' is an example of a ________
Q86 In Hausa, ‘farin ciki’ meaning ‘happiness’ is an example of a_____
Q87 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 ________
Q88 The ties and connections which exist within texts refer to_______
Q89 When the compressed air in the oral cavity is
released suddenly with an audible pop sound by the articulators at the
place of articulation, the sound produced is________
Q90 Which theory assumes a certain period for normal
language acquisition or learning and development to take place, after
which language learning can only be achieved with great difficulty?
Q91 Dental fricatives occur in only one of these languages________
Q92 -ee' in 'mentee' is an example of a _______ morpheme
Q93 isé + àtó --> ìsáto meaning ‘eight’ is an example of the process of ______
Q94 The auditory phonetic property of a sound that
enables a listener to place it on a scale from low to high or vice versa
is _______
Q95 The language centre for right-handed persons is located in the ________
Q96 Sounds that function as a peak are described as_______
Q97 The effect that an illocutionary act has on a hearer is referred to as______
Q98 The type of stress on a syllable that is produced with a maximum force of breath is called_________.
Q99 English is said to have stress-timed rhythm because in connected speech,__________
Q100 ‘inter’ in the word ‘interconnectivity’ is an example of a _______
Q101 Which of the maxims relates to how something is said in a talk exchange?
Q102 The science of designing machines that simulate human intelligence is known as _________
Q103 The sound produced when the lower lip meets the upper lip is called______
Q104 Which of the following does not feature in the production of vowels?
Q105 Which of the following does not feature in the production of consonants?
Q106 ______ is the process of determining the time of separation of genetically related languages.
Q107 Languages that descended from the same language are called _______
Q108 All except one of the following are minimal pairs________
Q109 One of the following words has a diphthong _________.
Q110 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 _________
Q111 Which of these is a set of bilabials ________?
Q112 The _______ is the basic unit of phonological study
Q113 The orthographic representation of a language is known as _________
Q114 One of the following is TRUE of vowel sound segments.
Q115 Which of the following is a complete set of voiceless sounds
Q116 All the following sounds are voiceless except _______
Q117 All the following sounds are voiced except _______
Q118 Phonetic transcription is a form of writing using ________
Q119 How many branches of phonetics are there __________?
Q120 Which of the following best describes Phonetics _______?