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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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1. The meaning derived from flouting
Inflectional morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
Implicature
Dative Movement
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Deixis
Social connotation
Homonyms
Speech Act
3. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Linguistics
Acronyms
Blends
4. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Passive
Illocutionary Act
Coded connotations
Invention
5. The science that studies language
Context
Clipping
Semantic features
Linguistics
6. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Flouting
Presupposition
Derivation
Semantics
7. The ability to produce language - what you know
Borrowing
Competence
Semantics
Linguistics
8. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Negation
Calque
Linguistics
9. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Phonology
Four components of sounds
Individual/Restricted connotation
Recursion
10. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Maxim of quality
Performance
Backformation
Affective connotation
11. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Passive
Derivation
Collocative connotation
Presupposition
12. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Phonology
Free morphemes
Implicature
Synchronic
13. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Flouting
Kernel sentence
Diachronic
Locutionary Act
14. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Deictics
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive
Connotation
15. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Semantic features
Compounding
Minimal pair
16. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Passive
Idioms
Denotation
Coded connotations
17. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Polyglot
Bound morphemes
Phonetics
Ambiguity
18. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Affective connotation
Suffix
Phonology
Passive
19. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Negation
Signifier
Descriptive
Performance
20. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Sign
Calque
Morphology
21. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Phoneme
Kernel sentence
Intonation
22. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Inference
Language planning
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
23. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Truth value
Compounding
Derivational morpheme
24. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Semantics
Minimal pair
Inference
Borrowing
25. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Borrowing
Phoneme
Language planning
Affective connotation
26. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Reflected connotation
Metonymy
Negation
Dative Movement
27. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Deixis
Phonetics
Derivation
Borrowing
28. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Perlocutionary Act
Free morphemes
29. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Bound morphemes
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
Deictics
30. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Collocative connotation
Social connotation
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
31. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Deixis
Four components of sounds
Utterance
Maxim of quality
32. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Adjacency Pair
Competence
Three types of articulations
Maxim of quality
33. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Bound morphemes
Pragmatics
Truth value
Categorizations of Speech Acts
34. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Individual/Restricted connotation
Derivation
Recursion
35. The rise and fall of sentences
Prefix
Homonyms
Intonation
Borrowing
36. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Collocative connotation
Presupposition
Deictics
Free morphemes
37. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Deixis
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Inference
Morpheme
38. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Utterance
Semantic features
Acronyms
39. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Phoneme
Minimal pair
Maxim of Quantity
40. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Morpheme
Suffix
Presupposition
41. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Meaning
Deictics
Neologism
Maxim of quality
42. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Borrowing
Prefix
Prefix
43. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coherence
Metonymy
44. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Backformation
Context
Idioms
Derivational morpheme
45. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Social connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Connotation
46. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Maxim of Manner
Context
Invention
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
47. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Metaphor
Invention
Free morphemes
48. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Synchronic
Signifier
Shibboleth
Coded connotations
49. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Polyglot
Particle hopping
Descriptive
Locutionary Act
50. A sentence in context
Syntax
Maxim of Quantity
Utterance
Implicature