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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. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Coherence
Linguistics
Affective connotation
Competence
2. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Coded connotations
Competence
Shibboleth
Adjacency Pair
3. An utterance produced by a speaker
Performance
Speech Act
Phonetics
Signified
4. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Signifier
Perlocutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
5. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Performance
Diachronic
Denotation
Reflected connotation
6. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Sign
Pragmatics
Signified
7. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Acronyms
Affective connotation
Metaphor
Morpheme
8. Affix after the root
Flouting
Morphology
Suffix
Signified
9. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Synchronic
Deictics
Connotation
Backformation
10. Mental representation of a word
Coherence
Passive
Three types of articulations
Meaning
11. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Competence
Signifier
Context
12. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Competence
Maxim of quality
Borrowing
Referent
13. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Derivation
Negation
Syntax
14. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Cohesion
Metonymy
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
15. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Deictics
Intonation
Phoneme
Denotation
16. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Metonymy
International Phonetic Alphabet
Universal Grammar
17. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Utterance
Metonymy
Truth value
Speech Act
18. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Semantic features
Synchronic
Language planning
Question
19. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Semantics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Truth value
Compounding
20. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Referent
Clipping
Semantics
Kernel sentence
21. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Negation
Homonyms
Maxim of Quantity
Cohesion
22. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Acronyms
Collocative connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
23. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Maxim of quality
Polyglot
Denotation
Question
24. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Prefix
Signifier
Prefix
Maxim of quality
25. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Bound morphemes
Three types of articulations
Suffix
26. Meaning components
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Language planning
Semantic features
27. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Coherence
Phonology
Phonology
28. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Compounding
Prescriptive
Calque
Reflected connotation
29. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
Syntax
Perlocutionary Act
Semantic features
30. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Sign
Passive
Context
31. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Competence
Transformations
Blends
Passive
32. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Referent
Language planning
Clipping
Three types of articulations
33. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Illocutionary Act
Locutionary Act
Cohesion
Dative Movement
34. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Affective connotation
Social connotation
Collocative connotation
Illocutionary Act
35. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Derivational morpheme
Ambiguity
Transformations
Intonation
36. The meaning derived from flouting
Pragmatics
Four components of sounds
Prescriptive
Implicature
37. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Derivation
Ambiguity
Meaning
Particle hopping
38. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Deixis
Inflectional morpheme
Reflected connotation
Inflectional morpheme
39. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Four components of sounds
Language planning
Maxim of Quantity
Denotation
40. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Metaphor
Sign
Denotation
Homonyms
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Polyglot
Negation
Four components of sounds
Affective connotation
42. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Universal Grammar
Kernel sentence
Referent
Dative Movement
43. A sentence in context
Suffix
Utterance
Implicature
Calque
44. An utterance produced by a speaker
Maxim of relevance
Lexicon
Speech Act
Locutionary Act
45. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Phonology
Implicature
Idioms
Collocative connotation
46. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Inference
Minimal pair
Prefix
International Phonetic Alphabet
47. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Maxim of Quantity
Borrowing
Passive
Lexicon
48. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Meaning
Diachronic
Acronyms
Backformation
49. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Phonology
Denotation
Synchronic
Connotation
50. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Social connotation
Connotation
Lexicon
Referent