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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Morphology
Deixis
Derivation
Homonyms
2. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Connotation
Four components of sounds
Idioms
Context
3. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Semantic features
Three types of articulations
Adjacency Pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
4. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Particle hopping
Derivational morpheme
Diachronic
Pragmatics
5. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Negation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Ambiguity
Connotation
6. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Connotation
Pragmatics
Question
Free morphemes
7. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Transformations
Minimal pair
Question
Prescriptive
8. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Flouting
Inference
Syntax
9. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Social connotation
Metaphor
Four components of sounds
10. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Compounding
Idioms
Social connotation
Illocutionary Act
11. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Metaphor
Phonetics
Derivation
International Phonetic Alphabet
12. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Presupposition
Perlocutionary Act
Transformations
Invention
13. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Dative Movement
Dative Movement
Shibboleth
14. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Ambiguity
Pragmatics
Three types of articulations
Referent
15. An utterance produced by a speaker
Phonology
Cohesion
Descriptive
Speech Act
16. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Pragmatics
Archaism
International Phonetic Alphabet
Universal Grammar
17. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Free morphemes
Maxim of Manner
Blends
Individual/Restricted connotation
18. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Phonetics
Homonyms
Flouting
Suffix
19. One who knows many languages
Locutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morphology
Polyglot
20. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Polyglot
Context
Performance
21. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Semantic features
Coherence
Shibboleth
Phonetics
22. Mental representation of a word
Illocutionary Act
Meaning
Denotation
Phonology
23. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
Universal Grammar
Minimal pair
24. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Semantic features
Collocative connotation
Morphology
Deictics
25. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Syntax
Cohesion
Phoneme
Phonology
26. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Homonyms
Maxim of Quantity
Derivational morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
27. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Inflectional morpheme
Homonyms
Utterance
Four components of sounds
28. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Passive
Maxim of relevance
Lexicon
Question
29. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Kernel sentence
Adjacency Pair
Prefix
Prescriptive
30. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Utterance
Descriptive
Passive
Adjacency Pair
31. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Free morphemes
Prescriptive
Deixis
Presupposition
32. The science that studies language
Reflected connotation
Presupposition
Linguistics
Three types of articulations
33. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Maxim of relevance
Polyglot
Maxim of Manner
34. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Referent
Deixis
Inflectional morpheme
35. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Passive
Affective connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
36. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Passive
Shibboleth
Linguistics
37. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Coherence
Free morphemes
Phoneme
Truth value
38. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Bound morphemes
Illocutionary Act
Universal Grammar
Derivation
39. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Quantity
40. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Deixis
Free morphemes
Diachronic
41. A sentence in context
Utterance
Adjacency Pair
Denotation
Universal Grammar
42. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Free morphemes
Denotation
Shibboleth
43. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Four components of sounds
Transformations
Maxim of relevance
44. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Inference
Suffix
Acronyms
Metaphor
45. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Negation
Transformations
Phoneme
Cohesion
46. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Pragmatics
Performance
Collocative connotation
47. Meaning components
Morphology
Cohesion
Three types of articulations
Semantic features
48. Affix before the root
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Neologism
Descriptive
49. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of Quantity
Idioms
Truth value
Homonyms
50. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Inference
Maxim of Quantity
Particle hopping
Phonetics
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