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Linguistics Basics
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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. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Semantic features
Reflected connotation
Blends
Pragmatics
2. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Social connotation
Signified
Shibboleth
Idioms
3. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Morphology
Minimal pair
Ambiguity
Maxim of relevance
4. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Deixis
Synchronic
Cohesion
Performance
5. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Denotation
Diachronic
Maxim of Manner
Backformation
6. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Phoneme
Prescriptive
Inference
Metonymy
7. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Prescriptive
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Invention
8. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Referent
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Metonymy
Lexicon
9. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Universal Grammar
Polyglot
Language planning
Locutionary Act
10. An utterance produced by a speaker
Archaism
Language planning
Speech Act
Derivation
11. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Linguistics
Deictics
Compounding
Question
12. Deals with how sentences are formed
Derivational morpheme
Locutionary Act
Sign
Syntax
13. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Flouting
Connotation
Morphology
14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Metonymy
Collocative connotation
Universal Grammar
15. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Deictics
Compounding
Locutionary Act
16. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Coded connotations
Ambiguity
Affective connotation
Question
17. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Morphology
Signifier
Invention
18. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Intonation
Blends
Deixis
19. A sentence in context
Acronyms
Archaism
Utterance
Metaphor
20. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Utterance
Three types of articulations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Competence
21. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Kernel sentence
Free morphemes
Transformations
Dative Movement
22. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Cohesion
Universal Grammar
Homonyms
Morpheme
23. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Prefix
Bound morphemes
Truth value
Morphology
24. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Morphology
Reflected connotation
Free morphemes
25. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Lexicon
Kernel sentence
Question
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
26. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Metaphor
Semantics
Cohesion
27. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Syntax
Linguistics
Language planning
Maxim of Quantity
28. Affix after the root
Maxim of relevance
Affective connotation
Suffix
Lexicon
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Performance
Suffix
Social connotation
Reflected connotation
30. The rise and fall of sentences
Implicature
Meaning
Intonation
Semantic features
31. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Language planning
Bound morphemes
Neologism
32. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Transformations
Language planning
Semantics
Intonation
33. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Borrowing
Passive
Syntax
Semantics
34. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Signifier
Linguistics
Invention
Affective connotation
35. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Referent
Pragmatics
Coherence
Illocutionary Act
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Synchronic
Affective connotation
Denotation
Metaphor
37. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Free morphemes
Universal Grammar
Perlocutionary Act
Performance
38. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Minimal pair
Dative Movement
Implicature
39. A word that has died out
Transformations
Connotation
Archaism
Universal Grammar
40. A word that has died out
Pragmatics
Archaism
Intonation
Illocutionary Act
41. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Truth value
Locutionary Act
Descriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
42. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Pragmatics
Locutionary Act
Linguistics
Question
43. An utterance produced by a speaker
Context
Diachronic
Calque
Speech Act
44. Meaning components
Semantic features
Ambiguity
Perlocutionary Act
Denotation
45. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Backformation
Collocative connotation
Competence
Sign
46. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
Syntax
47. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Maxim of Manner
Deictics
Acronyms
Passive
48. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Affective connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
49. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Synchronic
Deixis
Reflected connotation
Perlocutionary Act
50. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Blends
Deictics
Particle hopping
Utterance