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Linguistics Basics
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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. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Semantics
Universal Grammar
Collocative connotation
Negation
2. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Metaphor
Particle hopping
Acronyms
Maxim of relevance
3. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Ambiguity
Cohesion
Inference
Syntax
4. The rise and fall of sentences
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Intonation
Universal Grammar
Dative Movement
5. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Passive
Inflectional morpheme
Connotation
6. Mental representation of a word
Signified
Metaphor
Social connotation
Meaning
7. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Semantic features
Shibboleth
Implicature
Recursion
8. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Lexicon
Connotation
Linguistics
9. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Affective connotation
Linguistics
Metaphor
10. The science that studies language
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of relevance
Truth value
Linguistics
11. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Maxim of Manner
International Phonetic Alphabet
Derivational morpheme
Invention
12. Deals with how sentences are formed
Derivational morpheme
Syntax
Pragmatics
Synchronic
13. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Inference
Utterance
Signified
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
14. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Calque
Phonology
Three types of articulations
Sign
15. Deals with the sounds of a language
Reflected connotation
Reflected connotation
Phonetics
Meaning
16. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Semantic features
Coherence
Descriptive
17. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Prescriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Meaning
Inflectional morpheme
18. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Phonology
Competence
Collocative connotation
Maxim of Quantity
19. Deals with how sentences are formed
Speech Act
Signified
Syntax
Particle hopping
20. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Adjacency Pair
Context
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
21. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metonymy
Locutionary Act
22. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Suffix
Lexicon
Homonyms
Context
23. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Passive
Signifier
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
24. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Context
Minimal pair
Three types of articulations
25. The ability to produce language - what you know
Diachronic
Locutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Competence
26. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Four components of sounds
Meaning
27. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Coded connotations
Signifier
Calque
28. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
International Phonetic Alphabet
Affective connotation
Phoneme
Descriptive
29. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Kernel sentence
Language planning
Referent
Descriptive
30. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Clipping
Inference
Language planning
Social connotation
31. The meaning of a sign
Pragmatics
Compounding
Syntax
Signified
32. Affix before the root
Prefix
Affective connotation
Polyglot
Maxim of Manner
33. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Polyglot
Maxim of Manner
Minimal pair
34. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Presupposition
Derivation
Question
Prescriptive
35. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Bound morphemes
Diachronic
Deixis
Locutionary Act
36. The science that studies language
Referent
Linguistics
Referent
Invention
37. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Pragmatics
Meaning
Phonology
38. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Passive
Synchronic
Meaning
Diachronic
39. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Invention
Calque
Backformation
40. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive
Polyglot
Borrowing
41. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Ambiguity
Locutionary Act
Synchronic
Deictics
42. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Phonology
Semantics
Borrowing
Backformation
43. The overall meaning of a text
Polyglot
Coherence
Bound morphemes
Presupposition
44. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Morphology
Collocative connotation
Social connotation
45. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Three types of articulations
Phoneme
Neologism
Polyglot
46. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Infix
Invention
Truth value
Diachronic
47. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Maxim of Quantity
Backformation
Blends
48. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Shibboleth
Infix
Presupposition
49. The meaning derived from flouting
Universal Grammar
Performance
Implicature
Kernel sentence
50. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Coherence
Semantic features
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix