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Answer any four of the following questions in a paragraph of 100 words :

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How are diphthongs in English classified ?
Standard English.
Air Stream Mechanism and the organs of speech.

Branches of linguistics.
Mark Stress :
(a) Forgive. (b) Anywhere.
(c) Recorder. (d) Controversy.
Distinguish between the synchronic and diachronic approach to language study.

(4 x 5 = 20 marks)

Answer any two of the following questions in 300 words :

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What makes human language different from animal language ?
Write an essay on the basic assumptions of modern linguistics.
Describe the pure vowels of English RP.

32 Write an essay on the different methods of word formation in English.

(2 x 15 = 30 marks)