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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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1. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Bound morphemes
Archaism
Denotation
2. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Clipping
Morpheme
Dative Movement
Adjacency Pair
3. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Sign
Context
Free morphemes
Homonyms
4. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Competence
Backformation
Derivation
Universal Grammar
5. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Syntax
Four components of sounds
Affective connotation
Coherence
6. The rise and fall of sentences
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metaphor
Connotation
Intonation
7. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Minimal pair
Affective connotation
Inflectional morpheme
8. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Coded connotations
Derivational morpheme
Clipping
9. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Calque
Semantics
10. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Affective connotation
Illocutionary Act
Diachronic
Presupposition
11. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Cohesion
Meaning
Homonyms
Coded connotations
12. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Invention
Competence
Sign
Minimal pair
13. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Phoneme
Idioms
Maxim of quality
Derivation
14. Affix after the root
Clipping
Suffix
Speech Act
Linguistics
15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Denotation
Idioms
16. Meaning components
Semantic features
Derivational morpheme
Invention
Signifier
17. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Utterance
Minimal pair
Semantics
Referent
18. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Intonation
Lexicon
Bound morphemes
19. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Affective connotation
Acronyms
Derivation
Prescriptive
20. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Passive
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
Syntax
21. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Linguistics
Borrowing
Inflectional morpheme
22. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Backformation
Morphology
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
23. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Sign
Shibboleth
Passive
Phoneme
24. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Lexicon
Maxim of Manner
Question
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
25. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Homonyms
Referent
Presupposition
Inflectional morpheme
26. The overall meaning of a text
Locutionary Act
Reflected connotation
Coherence
Social connotation
27. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Maxim of Manner
Individual/Restricted connotation
Syntax
Archaism
28. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Recursion
Kernel sentence
Pragmatics
Polyglot
29. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Semantic features
Maxim of quality
Derivation
Pragmatics
30. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Calque
Deictics
Illocutionary Act
Phonetics
31. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Phonetics
Question
Infix
Clipping
32. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Negation
Semantics
Context
Phonology
33. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Pragmatics
Pragmatics
Collocative connotation
Maxim of Quantity
34. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Perlocutionary Act
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of relevance
Invention
35. A word that has died out
Social connotation
Compounding
Phonetics
Archaism
36. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Deixis
Maxim of Manner
Synchronic
Signifier
37. A sentence in context
Suffix
Negation
Utterance
Context
38. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Deictics
Suffix
Compounding
Lexicon
39. An utterance produced by a speaker
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Flouting
Speech Act
Perlocutionary Act
40. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Language planning
Shibboleth
Passive
Maxim of relevance
41. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Acronyms
Polyglot
Metaphor
42. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
Diachronic
43. Affix before the root
Four components of sounds
Prefix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Recursion
44. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Invention
Metaphor
Bound morphemes
Meaning
45. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Referent
Synchronic
Particle hopping
Transformations
46. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Language planning
Syntax
Performance
Signified
47. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Maxim of relevance
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Suffix
48. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Presupposition
Synchronic
Prescriptive
Social connotation
49. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Maxim of quality
Morpheme
50. The meaning derived from flouting
Lexicon
Question
Implicature
Borrowing