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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. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Inflectional morpheme
Kernel sentence
Calque
Three types of articulations
2. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Implicature
Denotation
Metaphor
Negation
3. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Coherence
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
4. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Blends
Connotation
Affective connotation
Deictics
5. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Borrowing
Maxim of Manner
Speech Act
Sign
6. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Maxim of quality
Signified
Question
Passive
7. The overall meaning of a text
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
Semantics
Coherence
8. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Invention
Three types of articulations
Context
Negation
9. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Recursion
Syntax
Homonyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
10. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Morpheme
Linguistics
Phoneme
Lexicon
11. Deals with how sentences are formed
Morphology
Referent
Syntax
Dative Movement
12. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Intonation
Presupposition
Universal Grammar
13. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
Derivational morpheme
14. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Prefix
Flouting
Maxim of Quantity
15. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Backformation
Referent
Semantics
Illocutionary Act
16. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Semantic features
Social connotation
Affective connotation
Inflectional morpheme
17. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Semantic features
Maxim of Manner
Implicature
18. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Flouting
Maxim of relevance
Synchronic
Denotation
19. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Morpheme
Minimal pair
Recursion
Transformations
20. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Three types of articulations
Adjacency Pair
Minimal pair
Truth value
21. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Meaning
Inference
Signified
Language planning
22. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Transformations
Derivation
Sign
23. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Blends
Morpheme
Prefix
24. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Inflectional morpheme
Truth value
Competence
Synchronic
25. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Referent
Truth value
Speech Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
26. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Metaphor
Backformation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of quality
27. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
International Phonetic Alphabet
Phonology
Three types of articulations
28. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Question
Synchronic
Presupposition
Locutionary Act
29. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Compounding
Language planning
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
30. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Homonyms
Adjacency Pair
Borrowing
31. The meaning derived from flouting
Utterance
Three types of articulations
Implicature
Signifier
32. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Suffix
Phoneme
Invention
Calque
33. One who knows many languages
Three types of articulations
Denotation
Synchronic
Polyglot
34. A new word
Social connotation
Infix
Neologism
Inference
35. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Blends
Particle hopping
Reflected connotation
36. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Adjacency Pair
Performance
Phonetics
37. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sign
Diachronic
38. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Compounding
Derivational morpheme
Particle hopping
39. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Phoneme
Deixis
Compounding
40. The meaning of a sign
Deictics
Maxim of Manner
Bound morphemes
Signified
41. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Inference
Acronyms
Dative Movement
Recursion
42. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Derivational morpheme
Blends
Maxim of Manner
Sign
43. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Deixis
Backformation
Inference
Denotation
44. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Transformations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Intonation
45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Context
Signifier
Transformations
Backformation
46. Deals with the sounds of a language
Blends
Phonetics
Particle hopping
Deixis
47. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Question
Compounding
Kernel sentence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
48. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Metaphor
Pragmatics
Clipping
Cohesion
49. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Negation
Cohesion
Lexicon
Adjacency Pair
50. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Perlocutionary Act
Neologism
Competence
Phoneme