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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Universal Grammar
Acronyms
Morphology
International Phonetic Alphabet
2. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Four components of sounds
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Bound morphemes
Backformation
3. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Context
Language planning
Semantic features
Clipping
4. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Kernel sentence
Affective connotation
Maxim of Quantity
5. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Linguistics
Inflectional morpheme
Illocutionary Act
6. The ability to produce language - what you know
Morphology
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
Competence
7. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Passive
Particle hopping
Infix
Metaphor
8. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Cohesion
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Ambiguity
Coded connotations
9. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Context
Maxim of Quantity
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
10. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Signifier
Derivational morpheme
Sign
11. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Deictics
Negation
Intonation
Truth value
12. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Connotation
Semantic features
Collocative connotation
13. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Archaism
Social connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Blends
14. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Polyglot
Cohesion
Backformation
Semantics
15. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Derivation
Dative Movement
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of relevance
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Calque
Performance
Signified
Collocative connotation
17. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Implicature
Inflectional morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
18. The rise and fall of sentences
Dative Movement
Signified
Free morphemes
Intonation
19. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Clipping
Transformations
Universal Grammar
Metonymy
20. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Sign
Sign
Phonology
21. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Homonyms
Backformation
Pragmatics
22. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Deictics
Question
Inflectional morpheme
Signified
23. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Free morphemes
Illocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Connotation
24. Mental representation of a word
Sign
Signifier
Suffix
Meaning
25. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Locutionary Act
Three types of articulations
Universal Grammar
Adjacency Pair
26. The meaning derived from flouting
Intonation
Implicature
Pragmatics
Acronyms
27. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Metaphor
Social connotation
Transformations
28. Affix after the root
Prefix
Suffix
Metaphor
Perlocutionary Act
29. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Diachronic
Dative Movement
Reflected connotation
Signifier
30. Mental representation of a word
Truth value
Neologism
Phonology
Meaning
31. A sentence in context
Phoneme
Utterance
Clipping
Free morphemes
32. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Infix
Kernel sentence
Question
Presupposition
33. A new word
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
Phoneme
Neologism
34. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Transformations
Illocutionary Act
Three types of articulations
35. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Metonymy
Metaphor
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
36. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Adjacency Pair
Pragmatics
Minimal pair
37. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Semantic features
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Meaning
Lexicon
38. One who knows many languages
Ambiguity
Illocutionary Act
Polyglot
Pragmatics
39. One who knows many languages
Speech Act
Calque
Polyglot
Intonation
40. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Prescriptive
Passive
Phonetics
Locutionary Act
41. Deals with the sounds of a language
Clipping
Phonetics
Neologism
Intonation
42. An utterance produced by a speaker
Referent
Speech Act
Coded connotations
Calque
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Speech Act
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Infix
44. A new word
Neologism
Three types of articulations
Prefix
Blends
45. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Utterance
Language planning
Phonetics
46. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of Manner
Illocutionary Act
Homonyms
Language planning
47. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Linguistics
Recursion
Free morphemes
Borrowing
48. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Coded connotations
Utterance
Denotation
Language planning
49. An utterance produced by a speaker
Phoneme
Infix
Speech Act
Signified
50. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Particle hopping
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Performance