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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. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Intonation
Derivation
Presupposition
Idioms
2. Deals with the sounds of a language
Derivational morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Ambiguity
Phonetics
3. An utterance produced by a speaker
Clipping
Context
Speech Act
Diachronic
4. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Coherence
Referent
Metaphor
Connotation
5. One who knows many languages
Denotation
Polyglot
Illocutionary Act
Deictics
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Clipping
Signified
Sign
Collocative connotation
7. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Negation
Descriptive
Homonyms
Clipping
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Affective connotation
Meaning
Syntax
9. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Performance
Reflected connotation
Clipping
Utterance
10. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Homonyms
Backformation
Cohesion
11. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Speech Act
Connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Four processes by which we produce sound
12. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Social connotation
Phonetics
Reflected connotation
Backformation
13. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of Quantity
Implicature
Reflected connotation
14. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Perlocutionary Act
Compounding
Calque
Categorizations of Speech Acts
15. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Four components of sounds
Metonymy
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
16. Affix after the root
Suffix
Minimal pair
Intonation
Descriptive
17. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Deixis
Coherence
Context
18. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Kernel sentence
Deixis
Ambiguity
Intonation
19. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Referent
Derivation
Infix
Morpheme
20. Meaning components
Homonyms
Coherence
Semantic features
Transformations
21. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Idioms
Performance
Denotation
Semantics
22. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Question
Particle hopping
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
23. The overall meaning of a text
Prescriptive
Sign
Coherence
Performance
24. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Neologism
Archaism
Referent
25. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Homonyms
Affective connotation
Calque
Invention
26. The rise and fall of sentences
Syntax
Prescriptive
Four components of sounds
Intonation
27. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Minimal pair
Dative Movement
Reflected connotation
Inflectional morpheme
28. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
Truth value
Signified
29. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of Quantity
Perlocutionary Act
Linguistics
30. The meaning derived from flouting
Universal Grammar
Signified
Referent
Implicature
31. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Coherence
Infix
Perlocutionary Act
Truth value
32. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Metonymy
Clipping
Metaphor
Question
33. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Context
Archaism
Diachronic
34. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Denotation
Signifier
Universal Grammar
Invention
35. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Free morphemes
Pragmatics
Language planning
Neologism
36. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Four components of sounds
Synchronic
Negation
37. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Implicature
Context
Negation
38. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Morphology
Shibboleth
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four components of sounds
39. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Reflected connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Competence
40. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Phonology
Idioms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Morphology
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Social connotation
Clipping
Social connotation
Collocative connotation
42. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Phonology
Truth value
Synchronic
Performance
43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Linguistics
Passive
Referent
44. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Coded connotations
Context
Affective connotation
45. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metonymy
Speech Act
Phoneme
46. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Free morphemes
Kernel sentence
Deictics
Inflectional morpheme
47. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Denotation
Language planning
Signified
48. A sentence in context
Four processes by which we produce sound
Adjacency Pair
Utterance
Bound morphemes
49. A sentence in context
Maxim of Quantity
Clipping
Presupposition
Utterance
50. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Morpheme
Locutionary Act
Descriptive