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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Phonology
Performance
Context
Universal Grammar
2. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Metaphor
Competence
3. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Prefix
Invention
Signifier
4. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Acronyms
Denotation
Coherence
Descriptive
5. One who knows many languages
Locutionary Act
Shibboleth
Polyglot
Performance
6. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Metonymy
Coherence
Prefix
Flouting
7. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Maxim of Quantity
Signifier
Reflected connotation
Homonyms
8. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Neologism
Sign
Inference
Adjacency Pair
9. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Acronyms
Social connotation
Descriptive
Morphology
10. A word that has died out
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Synchronic
Archaism
Language planning
11. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Morpheme
Intonation
12. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Perlocutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
Deixis
13. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Infix
Competence
Coded connotations
Affective connotation
14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Speech Act
Flouting
Maxim of quality
Question
15. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Ambiguity
Reflected connotation
Flouting
Prescriptive
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Adjacency Pair
Social connotation
Dative Movement
Lexicon
17. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Clipping
Implicature
Morphology
Presupposition
18. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Neologism
Free morphemes
Phoneme
Clipping
19. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Connotation
Idioms
Dative Movement
20. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Phonology
Flouting
Recursion
Passive
21. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Performance
Cohesion
Reflected connotation
Particle hopping
22. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Presupposition
Particle hopping
Maxim of Manner
23. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Meaning
Maxim of Manner
Backformation
Passive
24. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Maxim of Manner
Acronyms
Locutionary Act
Truth value
25. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Ambiguity
Social connotation
Coded connotations
Maxim of Manner
26. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Inflectional morpheme
Signifier
27. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Maxim of Quantity
Derivation
Deictics
Four components of sounds
28. Meaning components
Sign
Semantic features
Phoneme
Free morphemes
29. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Passive
Coherence
Meaning
Four processes by which we produce sound
30. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Question
Referent
Four components of sounds
Dative Movement
31. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of quality
Competence
Homonyms
Maxim of relevance
32. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Descriptive
Backformation
Three types of articulations
33. Deals with how sentences are formed
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Syntax
Backformation
Synchronic
34. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Individual/Restricted connotation
Archaism
Compounding
35. The ability to produce language - what you know
Metaphor
Connotation
Competence
Reflected connotation
36. One who knows many languages
Derivational morpheme
Passive
Social connotation
Polyglot
37. A sentence in context
Archaism
Utterance
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
38. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Utterance
Semantics
Locutionary Act
Signifier
39. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Social connotation
Syntax
Language planning
40. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
Performance
Maxim of relevance
41. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Affective connotation
Referent
Syntax
42. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Metonymy
Synchronic
Neologism
Descriptive
43. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Connotation
Illocutionary Act
Bound morphemes
Kernel sentence
44. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Morphology
Derivation
Inflectional morpheme
Prescriptive
45. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Neologism
Referent
Semantics
46. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Maxim of Quantity
Inference
Context
Question
47. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Performance
Borrowing
Free morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
48. The overall meaning of a text
Maxim of relevance
Truth value
Coherence
Passive
49. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Syntax
Semantics
Infix
50. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Truth value
Question
Speech Act
Context