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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Particle hopping
Dative Movement
Referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
2. One who knows many languages
Implicature
Polyglot
Negation
Context
3. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Social connotation
Diachronic
Locutionary Act
Neologism
4. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Descriptive
Metaphor
Synchronic
Cohesion
5. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Speech Act
Maxim of relevance
Derivation
6. The meaning derived from flouting
Affective connotation
Infix
Locutionary Act
Implicature
7. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Pragmatics
Morphology
Blends
Language planning
8. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Coded connotations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Transformations
Homonyms
9. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Inference
Blends
Pragmatics
Deictics
10. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Polyglot
Signified
Prescriptive
11. A new word
Polyglot
Locutionary Act
Connotation
Neologism
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Four processes by which we produce sound
Social connotation
Transformations
Referent
13. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
Truth value
Calque
14. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Flouting
Collocative connotation
Blends
Universal Grammar
15. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Idioms
Illocutionary Act
16. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Deixis
Question
Particle hopping
Implicature
17. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Homonyms
Bound morphemes
Compounding
Transformations
18. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Denotation
Semantics
Inflectional morpheme
Morpheme
19. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Derivational morpheme
Intonation
Inference
Presupposition
20. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Infix
Coded connotations
Coherence
Lexicon
21. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Transformations
Phonetics
Phonology
Metonymy
22. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Implicature
Morpheme
Phonetics
23. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Connotation
Synchronic
Metonymy
Affective connotation
24. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Blends
Intonation
Diachronic
25. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Phoneme
Semantics
Intonation
Question
26. A word that has died out
Maxim of Quantity
Archaism
Kernel sentence
Shibboleth
27. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Recursion
Deixis
Linguistics
Free morphemes
28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Meaning
Polyglot
Homonyms
Derivational morpheme
29. An utterance produced by a speaker
Maxim of relevance
Speech Act
Maxim of relevance
Categorizations of Speech Acts
30. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Derivation
Signifier
Negation
Suffix
31. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
Prescriptive
Diachronic
32. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Language planning
Meaning
Maxim of relevance
Inflectional morpheme
33. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Semantic features
Blends
Archaism
34. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Illocutionary Act
Negation
Maxim of Manner
Metonymy
35. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Diachronic
Neologism
Prescriptive
Morphology
36. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Dative Movement
Syntax
Shibboleth
37. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Morphology
Universal Grammar
Perlocutionary Act
38. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Suffix
Idioms
Performance
39. The ability to produce language - what you know
Linguistics
Phoneme
Descriptive
Competence
40. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Locutionary Act
Metonymy
Blends
Borrowing
41. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Context
Ambiguity
Particle hopping
Polyglot
42. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Affective connotation
Borrowing
Affective connotation
43. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Polyglot
Derivation
Diachronic
44. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Intonation
Synchronic
Minimal pair
Neologism
45. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Derivational morpheme
Neologism
Acronyms
46. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Speech Act
Phoneme
Ambiguity
47. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Affective connotation
Morphology
Pragmatics
Connotation
48. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Coded connotations
Idioms
Idioms
49. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Signifier
Morphology
Diachronic
Cohesion
50. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Linguistics
Recursion
Signifier
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