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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. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Maxim of Manner
Metaphor
Lexicon
Phonology
2. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Signified
Infix
Inflectional morpheme
Coded connotations
3. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Transformations
Synchronic
Deictics
Universal Grammar
4. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Clipping
Inference
Implicature
Derivational morpheme
5. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
Deictics
Reflected connotation
6. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Idioms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of relevance
Referent
7. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
Maxim of quality
Social connotation
8. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Reflected connotation
Context
Referent
9. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Semantics
Minimal pair
Presupposition
Lexicon
10. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Borrowing
Derivational morpheme
Morphology
11. Affix in the middle of a word
Context
Infix
Cohesion
Performance
12. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Synchronic
Context
Bound morphemes
13. Affix after the root
Suffix
Semantics
Bound morphemes
Language planning
14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Language planning
Synchronic
Performance
Flouting
15. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Negation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Illocutionary Act
16. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Individual/Restricted connotation
Connotation
Phoneme
17. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Phoneme
International Phonetic Alphabet
Semantics
18. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Particle hopping
Archaism
Ambiguity
Inference
19. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Performance
Maxim of relevance
Intonation
Clipping
20. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Adjacency Pair
Prescriptive
Utterance
21. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Meaning
Blends
Signifier
Three types of articulations
22. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Recursion
Morphology
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Referent
23. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Deictics
Invention
Metonymy
Semantic features
24. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Synchronic
Perlocutionary Act
Coded connotations
Signified
25. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Synchronic
Phoneme
Social connotation
26. One who knows many languages
Archaism
Polyglot
Reflected connotation
Connotation
27. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Prescriptive
Linguistics
Clipping
Metonymy
28. The meaning of a sign
Compounding
Locutionary Act
Signified
Clipping
29. Mental representation of a word
Illocutionary Act
Semantic features
Meaning
Flouting
30. The meaning derived from flouting
Perlocutionary Act
Implicature
Intonation
Social connotation
31. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Free morphemes
Phonetics
Syntax
Bound morphemes
32. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phoneme
Context
Prescriptive
Idioms
33. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Passive
Linguistics
Referent
Metonymy
34. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Minimal pair
Polyglot
Deictics
Syntax
35. Affix in the middle of a word
Maxim of relevance
Infix
Cohesion
Homonyms
36. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Denotation
Deictics
Prefix
Bound morphemes
37. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Polyglot
Derivational morpheme
Sign
38. A word that has died out
Archaism
Maxim of Quantity
Sign
Metaphor
39. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Invention
Maxim of quality
Perlocutionary Act
40. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Morpheme
Inference
Coded connotations
Sign
41. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Utterance
Particle hopping
Descriptive
Homonyms
42. The meaning derived from flouting
Lexicon
Prefix
Locutionary Act
Implicature
43. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Universal Grammar
Acronyms
Bound morphemes
Deictics
44. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Negation
Transformations
45. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Affective connotation
Archaism
Kernel sentence
Flouting
46. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Borrowing
Blends
Dative Movement
Derivational morpheme
47. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Descriptive
Compounding
Referent
Shibboleth
48. A sentence in context
Perlocutionary Act
Three types of articulations
Morpheme
Utterance
49. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Competence
Morpheme
Signified
Polyglot
50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Metonymy
Illocutionary Act
Derivational morpheme