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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Cohesion
Four processes by which we produce sound
Syntax
Free morphemes
2. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Reflected connotation
Deictics
Coherence
Ambiguity
3. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Adjacency Pair
Linguistics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Neologism
4. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Calque
Truth value
Implicature
Connotation
5. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Four processes by which we produce sound
Presupposition
Coded connotations
Morpheme
6. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Meaning
Context
Pragmatics
Maxim of Quantity
7. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Metaphor
Semantic features
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
8. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Backformation
Universal Grammar
Four processes by which we produce sound
Three types of articulations
9. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Transformations
Homonyms
Coded connotations
10. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Homonyms
Inference
Flouting
11. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Language planning
Derivation
Sign
Passive
12. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Coherence
Question
Locutionary Act
Negation
13. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Locutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
14. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Individual/Restricted connotation
Metonymy
Four components of sounds
Coherence
15. Mental representation of a word
Diachronic
Polyglot
Perlocutionary Act
Meaning
16. Meaning components
Referent
Linguistics
Social connotation
Semantic features
17. A sentence in context
Utterance
Lexicon
Metonymy
Adjacency Pair
18. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Reflected connotation
Phonology
Syntax
19. Affix before the root
Deixis
Borrowing
Prefix
Implicature
20. The science that studies language
Adjacency Pair
Free morphemes
Connotation
Linguistics
21. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Phoneme
Passive
Implicature
Adjacency Pair
22. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Implicature
Phonology
Clipping
Phoneme
23. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Derivation
Clipping
Competence
Acronyms
24. Affix after the root
Implicature
Bound morphemes
Suffix
Dative Movement
25. Deals with how sentences are formed
Speech Act
Implicature
Idioms
Syntax
26. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Semantics
Prescriptive
Truth value
Meaning
27. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Synchronic
Affective connotation
Lexicon
28. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Shibboleth
Transformations
29. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Three types of articulations
Performance
Three types of articulations
Inference
30. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Deixis
Competence
Ambiguity
Calque
31. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Semantics
Perlocutionary Act
Neologism
Context
32. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Manner
Ambiguity
Competence
33. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Phonology
Metaphor
Linguistics
34. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Neologism
Referent
35. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Ambiguity
Borrowing
Adjacency Pair
36. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Coded connotations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Flouting
Recursion
37. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Morpheme
Polyglot
Intonation
Affective connotation
38. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Negation
Syntax
Language planning
39. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Signifier
Phoneme
Social connotation
Morphology
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Dative Movement
Question
Synchronic
Collocative connotation
41. The overall meaning of a text
Connotation
Acronyms
Coherence
Dative Movement
42. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Signifier
Syntax
Free morphemes
43. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Utterance
Utterance
Homonyms
Maxim of quality
44. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Cohesion
Cohesion
Syntax
Shibboleth
45. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Affective connotation
Acronyms
Inference
Backformation
46. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Implicature
Neologism
Connotation
Deixis
47. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Kernel sentence
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of relevance
Passive
48. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Context
Particle hopping
Acronyms
Kernel sentence
49. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Universal Grammar
Implicature
Connotation
Semantics
50. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Question
Lexicon
Blends
Flouting