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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Phonetics
Maxim of Manner
Clipping
Diachronic
2. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Lexicon
Transformations
Acronyms
3. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Coded connotations
Metonymy
Intonation
Four components of sounds
4. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Idioms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Kernel sentence
Phonology
5. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Question
Adjacency Pair
Derivational morpheme
Synchronic
6. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Meaning
Signified
Reflected connotation
Compounding
7. The overall meaning of a text
Three types of articulations
Coherence
Bound morphemes
Illocutionary Act
8. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Speech Act
Intonation
9. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Affective connotation
Descriptive
Compounding
Transformations
10. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Particle hopping
Backformation
Archaism
Inference
11. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Context
Derivation
Speech Act
Intonation
12. Affix after the root
Affective connotation
Maxim of Manner
Shibboleth
Suffix
13. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Presupposition
Denotation
14. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Presupposition
Particle hopping
Compounding
Phonetics
15. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Transformations
Competence
Inflectional morpheme
Idioms
16. Affix in the middle of a word
International Phonetic Alphabet
Infix
Negation
Lexicon
17. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Deictics
Transformations
Coded connotations
18. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Individual/Restricted connotation
Compounding
Derivational morpheme
19. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Deictics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Referent
Cohesion
20. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Passive
Truth value
Neologism
Maxim of relevance
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Derivational morpheme
Social connotation
22. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Presupposition
Language planning
Referent
Borrowing
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Competence
Compounding
Meaning
Performance
24. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Acronyms
Three types of articulations
Backformation
Language planning
25. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Idioms
Implicature
Connotation
26. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Infix
Kernel sentence
Calque
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
27. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Minimal pair
Individual/Restricted connotation
Recursion
Competence
28. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Compounding
Language planning
Context
Invention
29. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Locutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
30. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Deixis
Universal Grammar
Idioms
Phonology
31. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Cohesion
Semantics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Deixis
32. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Individual/Restricted connotation
Minimal pair
Illocutionary Act
33. A word that has died out
Maxim of quality
Archaism
Referent
Pragmatics
34. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Three types of articulations
Particle hopping
Flouting
35. One who knows many languages
Adjacency Pair
Polyglot
Three types of articulations
Particle hopping
36. Deals with how sentences are formed
Particle hopping
Prefix
Syntax
Phonetics
37. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Affective connotation
Utterance
Presupposition
38. Meaning components
Utterance
Minimal pair
Semantic features
Meaning
39. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Universal Grammar
Pragmatics
Context
40. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Phonetics
Maxim of Manner
Backformation
Phonology
41. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Language planning
Passive
Perlocutionary Act
42. The rise and fall of sentences
Signified
Intonation
Universal Grammar
Kernel sentence
43. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Phoneme
Language planning
Dative Movement
44. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Signified
Coded connotations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Deixis
45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Morphology
Compounding
Presupposition
Signifier
46. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Utterance
Coded connotations
Semantic features
Particle hopping
47. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Clipping
Lexicon
Social connotation
Phonology
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Implicature
Adjacency Pair
Categorizations of Speech Acts
49. Deals with how sentences are formed
Transformations
Negation
Coherence
Syntax
50. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Flouting
Free morphemes
Kernel sentence
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