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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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1. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Particle hopping
Homonyms
Backformation
Morpheme
2. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Dative Movement
Collocative connotation
Deictics
Maxim of quality
3. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Metonymy
Archaism
Semantics
Kernel sentence
4. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Inference
Reflected connotation
Affective connotation
5. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Individual/Restricted connotation
Linguistics
Language planning
6. One who knows many languages
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
Context
Infix
7. The ability to produce language - what you know
Diachronic
Shibboleth
Competence
Kernel sentence
8. The meaning of a sign
Semantic features
Denotation
Derivational morpheme
Signified
9. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Locutionary Act
Metonymy
Three types of articulations
Meaning
10. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Cohesion
Utterance
Phonology
Metaphor
11. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Maxim of quality
Semantic features
Universal Grammar
Borrowing
12. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Flouting
Four components of sounds
Referent
Question
13. Affix after the root
Suffix
Affective connotation
Presupposition
Inference
14. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Coded connotations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Borrowing
15. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Calque
Recursion
Syntax
Acronyms
16. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Performance
Perlocutionary Act
Backformation
Three types of articulations
17. Meaning components
Illocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Semantic features
Derivational morpheme
18. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Signified
Locutionary Act
Compounding
Kernel sentence
19. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Diachronic
Universal Grammar
Calque
Synchronic
20. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Flouting
Syntax
Four components of sounds
Compounding
21. Affix after the root
Deictics
Blends
Affective connotation
Suffix
22. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Maxim of quality
Truth value
Universal Grammar
Polyglot
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Syntax
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Particle hopping
Performance
24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Four processes by which we produce sound
Inflectional morpheme
Clipping
25. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Invention
Inflectional morpheme
Affective connotation
Semantics
26. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Semantic features
Denotation
Compounding
Social connotation
27. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Referent
Phoneme
Question
28. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Metonymy
Semantics
Utterance
Maxim of relevance
29. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Coherence
Semantic features
Intonation
Ambiguity
30. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Reflected connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Transformations
31. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Context
Bound morphemes
Neologism
32. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Illocutionary Act
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Manner
Phonology
33. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Social connotation
Universal Grammar
Shibboleth
Signifier
34. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Descriptive
Descriptive
Cohesion
35. Meaning components
Inflectional morpheme
Language planning
Semantic features
Neologism
36. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Intonation
Meaning
Particle hopping
Phonology
37. Mental representation of a word
Collocative connotation
Descriptive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Meaning
38. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Descriptive
Descriptive
Context
Referent
39. The science that studies language
Pragmatics
Perlocutionary Act
Free morphemes
Linguistics
40. A word that has died out
Cohesion
Archaism
Lexicon
Syntax
41. Affix before the root
Prefix
Three types of articulations
Passive
Neologism
42. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Prefix
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Quantity
Locutionary Act
43. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Prefix
Universal Grammar
Coded connotations
Minimal pair
44. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Connotation
Cohesion
Pragmatics
Phonetics
45. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Borrowing
Denotation
Adjacency Pair
Blends
46. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Recursion
Idioms
Deixis
47. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Reflected connotation
Reflected connotation
Polyglot
48. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Collocative connotation
Denotation
Clipping
Universal Grammar
49. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Pragmatics
Language planning
Maxim of relevance
Question
50. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of quality
Prefix
Descriptive
Maxim of Quantity