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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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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1. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Truth value
Cohesion
Coded connotations
Competence
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Implicature
Particle hopping
Inference
Intonation
3. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Dative Movement
Pragmatics
Locutionary Act
4. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Presupposition
Derivational morpheme
International Phonetic Alphabet
Connotation
5. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Phoneme
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morphology
Syntax
6. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Inference
Speech Act
Coherence
Shibboleth
7. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Implicature
Utterance
Synchronic
8. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Denotation
Minimal pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
Reflected connotation
9. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Neologism
Archaism
Transformations
Referent
10. An utterance produced by a speaker
Sign
Speech Act
Acronyms
Utterance
11. Mental representation of a word
Connotation
Suffix
Meaning
Invention
12. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Acronyms
Compounding
Inflectional morpheme
Illocutionary Act
13. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Passive
Bound morphemes
Neologism
Idioms
14. Affix before the root
Deictics
Adjacency Pair
Syntax
Prefix
15. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Dative Movement
Truth value
Invention
16. The meaning derived from flouting
Maxim of relevance
Implicature
Coherence
Referent
17. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Free morphemes
Descriptive
Reflected connotation
18. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Neologism
Prescriptive
Adjacency Pair
Inference
19. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Invention
Invention
Three types of articulations
Minimal pair
20. The meaning of a sign
Semantics
Signified
Blends
Prescriptive
21. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Acronyms
Sign
22. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Affective connotation
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
23. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Bound morphemes
Locutionary Act
Implicature
Shibboleth
24. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Deixis
Diachronic
Synchronic
25. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of Manner
Meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
26. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Semantics
Ambiguity
Reflected connotation
Blends
27. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Invention
Coherence
Inflectional morpheme
28. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Deictics
Borrowing
Morpheme
Speech Act
29. The rise and fall of sentences
Homonyms
Intonation
Maxim of relevance
Context
30. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Pragmatics
Connotation
Kernel sentence
Pragmatics
31. A sentence in context
Universal Grammar
Utterance
Calque
Four processes by which we produce sound
32. A new word
Denotation
Neologism
Acronyms
Invention
33. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Referent
Negation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Free morphemes
34. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Individual/Restricted connotation
Metaphor
Signifier
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Dative Movement
Performance
Collocative connotation
Polyglot
36. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Presupposition
Compounding
International Phonetic Alphabet
Free morphemes
37. The meaning of a sign
Derivational morpheme
Signified
Adjacency Pair
Context
38. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Context
Recursion
Synchronic
Blends
39. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Four components of sounds
Syntax
Minimal pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
40. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Reflected connotation
Free morphemes
Illocutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
41. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Homonyms
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
42. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Lexicon
Deixis
Illocutionary Act
Semantics
43. A new word
Calque
Homonyms
Neologism
Metonymy
44. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Idioms
Maxim of Quantity
Context
Deictics
45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Metonymy
Recursion
Signifier
Referent
46. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
International Phonetic Alphabet
Flouting
Signifier
Coded connotations
47. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Locutionary Act
Performance
Inference
Sign
48. A sentence in context
Maxim of Quantity
Utterance
Pragmatics
Inference
49. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Deixis
Language planning
Neologism
Minimal pair
50. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Transformations
Speech Act
Semantics
Derivation