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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






2. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






3. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






4. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






5. A single sound. K - d - t - e






6. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words






7. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






8. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning






9. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






10. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






11. Affix after the root






12. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






13. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






14. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






15. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






16. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






17. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






18. Deals with how sentences are formed






19. A new word






20. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






21. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes






22. Mental representation of a word






23. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






24. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)






25. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






26. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






27. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






28. Mental representation of a word






29. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






30. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






31. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






32. The meaning derived from flouting






33. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






34. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






35. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






36. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc






37. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






38. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






39. Deals with how the sounds are organized






40. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






41. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






42. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






43. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






44. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






45. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






46. An utterance produced by a speaker






47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






48. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






49. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






50. A word that has died out