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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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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. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Inflectional morpheme
Speech Act
Morphology
Maxim of Manner
2. The overall meaning of a text
Bound morphemes
Morpheme
Coherence
Sign
3. Deals with the sounds of a language
Transformations
Maxim of relevance
Phonetics
Reflected connotation
4. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Maxim of quality
Three types of articulations
Inference
5. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Four components of sounds
Borrowing
Context
Collocative connotation
6. The science that studies language
Utterance
Linguistics
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
7. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
Prescriptive
8. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Referent
Prescriptive
Transformations
Affective connotation
9. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Referent
Derivation
Infix
Prescriptive
10. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Maxim of Manner
Signifier
Invention
Clipping
11. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Diachronic
Phoneme
Deictics
Morphology
12. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Homonyms
Maxim of Quantity
Illocutionary Act
Archaism
13. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Performance
Maxim of relevance
Question
Lexicon
14. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Context
Implicature
Sign
Cohesion
15. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Locutionary Act
Cohesion
Adjacency Pair
16. A sentence in context
Utterance
Speech Act
Four components of sounds
Maxim of Quantity
17. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Borrowing
Coded connotations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Acronyms
18. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Derivation
Metonymy
Idioms
Maxim of quality
19. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Idioms
Four components of sounds
Truth value
Blends
20. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Archaism
Transformations
Prescriptive
21. Meaning components
Maxim of Manner
Negation
Ambiguity
Semantic features
22. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Context
Recursion
Acronyms
Semantics
23. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Performance
Maxim of Quantity
Prefix
24. One who knows many languages
Adjacency Pair
Universal Grammar
Blends
Polyglot
25. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Ambiguity
Transformations
Phoneme
26. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Suffix
Signifier
Collocative connotation
Backformation
27. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Prescriptive
Universal Grammar
Connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
28. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Phonetics
Universal Grammar
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Coded connotations
29. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Inference
Deictics
Language planning
30. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Shibboleth
Individual/Restricted connotation
Blends
Coded connotations
31. The overall meaning of a text
Acronyms
Meaning
Coherence
Homonyms
32. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Bound morphemes
Phonology
Derivation
Free morphemes
33. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Utterance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Inflectional morpheme
Descriptive
34. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Maxim of quality
Metonymy
Compounding
Sign
35. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Maxim of quality
Four components of sounds
Coherence
Denotation
36. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
Deictics
Semantic features
37. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Passive
Deixis
Neologism
Individual/Restricted connotation
38. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Maxim of Manner
Invention
Denotation
Infix
39. A sentence in context
Morphology
Affective connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Utterance
40. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Passive
Derivational morpheme
Morphology
Prescriptive
41. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Implicature
Inflectional morpheme
Synchronic
Deixis
42. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Meaning
International Phonetic Alphabet
Individual/Restricted connotation
Illocutionary Act
43. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Morpheme
Invention
Metonymy
Pragmatics
44. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Pragmatics
Phoneme
Negation
Deixis
45. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Inference
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Presupposition
Homonyms
46. Affix after the root
Descriptive
Suffix
Morpheme
Derivational morpheme
47. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Invention
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Deictics
Synchronic
48. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Kernel sentence
Presupposition
Polyglot
Three types of articulations
49. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Minimal pair
Neologism
Acronyms
Dative Movement
50. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Metaphor
Intonation
Implicature