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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Cohesion
Three types of articulations
Blends
Archaism
2. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Collocative connotation
Intonation
Suffix
3. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Phonology
4. Mental representation of a word
Phoneme
Inflectional morpheme
Locutionary Act
Meaning
5. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Free morphemes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of Manner
6. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Negation
Signified
Inference
Question
7. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Particle hopping
Language planning
Idioms
Negation
8. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Free morphemes
Dative Movement
Signifier
Phoneme
9. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Bound morphemes
Polyglot
Categorizations of Speech Acts
10. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Borrowing
Derivation
Flouting
Semantics
11. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
International Phonetic Alphabet
Deixis
Maxim of quality
Infix
12. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Language planning
Maxim of quality
Maxim of relevance
Passive
13. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Inference
Locutionary Act
Syntax
Archaism
14. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Performance
Syntax
Synchronic
Shibboleth
15. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Borrowing
Ambiguity
Signifier
Polyglot
16. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
Bound morphemes
17. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Free morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Locutionary Act
Affective connotation
18. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Adjacency Pair
Reflected connotation
Negation
Acronyms
19. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Shibboleth
Homonyms
Denotation
Semantic features
20. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Blends
Borrowing
Compounding
21. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Competence
Flouting
Truth value
Illocutionary Act
22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Prescriptive
Presupposition
Metonymy
Signifier
23. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Linguistics
Inference
Derivation
24. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Cohesion
Universal Grammar
Passive
Phoneme
25. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Coherence
Implicature
Maxim of quality
Passive
26. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Signified
Meaning
Derivation
Backformation
27. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Illocutionary Act
Affective connotation
Morphology
28. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Maxim of Quantity
Transformations
Connotation
29. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Inference
Referent
Diachronic
Invention
30. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Denotation
Transformations
Suffix
Phonology
31. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Speech Act
Deictics
Derivation
Illocutionary Act
32. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Inference
Compounding
Acronyms
Universal Grammar
33. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Three types of articulations
Phonetics
Maxim of Quantity
Backformation
34. A new word
Metonymy
Semantics
Maxim of quality
Neologism
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Phoneme
Coherence
Locutionary Act
36. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Phoneme
Maxim of relevance
Prefix
37. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Coded connotations
Perlocutionary Act
Negation
Four components of sounds
38. A new word
Speech Act
Implicature
Context
Neologism
39. Deals with how sentences are formed
Four processes by which we produce sound
Syntax
Blends
Deixis
40. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Passive
Compounding
Metonymy
41. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Three types of articulations
Polyglot
Morphology
42. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Semantic features
Performance
Adjacency Pair
Presupposition
43. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Deictics
Prescriptive
Synchronic
Blends
44. Mental representation of a word
Transformations
Meaning
Passive
Negation
45. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Semantics
Syntax
Free morphemes
Transformations
46. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Prescriptive
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Language planning
Homonyms
47. Affix after the root
Suffix
Sign
Syntax
Speech Act
48. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Phonetics
Descriptive
Connotation
Phonetics
49. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Archaism
Performance
Passive
50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Calque
Negation
Blends
Deixis