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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. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Kernel sentence
Implicature
2. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Invention
Connotation
Question
Inference
3. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Deixis
Transformations
Phonology
Social connotation
4. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Derivational morpheme
Illocutionary Act
Ambiguity
Metonymy
5. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Cohesion
Synchronic
Acronyms
Three types of articulations
6. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
Blends
Referent
7. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Question
Suffix
Maxim of Quantity
Invention
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Phoneme
Collocative connotation
Syntax
Clipping
9. A sentence in context
Utterance
Universal Grammar
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
10. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Recursion
Homonyms
Implicature
Phoneme
11. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Derivational morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Competence
12. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Blends
Universal Grammar
Language planning
Truth value
13. An utterance produced by a speaker
Invention
Compounding
Speech Act
Reflected connotation
14. One who knows many languages
Descriptive
Polyglot
Shibboleth
Transformations
15. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Morpheme
Phonetics
Passive
16. The science that studies language
Implicature
Linguistics
Deictics
Referent
17. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Intonation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Meaning
Compounding
18. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Utterance
Free morphemes
Recursion
Performance
19. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Negation
Passive
Derivational morpheme
Sign
20. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Neologism
Derivation
Descriptive
Metaphor
21. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Descriptive
Inference
Backformation
Polyglot
22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Polyglot
Shibboleth
Infix
Signifier
23. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
International Phonetic Alphabet
Presupposition
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Syntax
24. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Reflected connotation
Maxim of Manner
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of relevance
25. Meaning components
Synchronic
Inference
Phonetics
Semantic features
26. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Three types of articulations
Referent
Context
27. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Coherence
Borrowing
Cohesion
Homonyms
28. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Performance
Locutionary Act
Maxim of quality
29. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Bound morphemes
Utterance
Categorizations of Speech Acts
30. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Kernel sentence
Morpheme
Passive
31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Idioms
Acronyms
Lexicon
Descriptive
32. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
Reflected connotation
Homonyms
33. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
Four components of sounds
Dative Movement
34. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Universal Grammar
Ambiguity
Coded connotations
Truth value
35. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Pragmatics
Dative Movement
Negation
Phonology
36. Mental representation of a word
Flouting
Locutionary Act
Meaning
Perlocutionary Act
37. A new word
Neologism
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
Speech Act
38. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Idioms
Metaphor
Locutionary Act
Phoneme
39. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Dative Movement
Clipping
Neologism
Minimal pair
40. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Phonology
Free morphemes
Infix
Transformations
41. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of quality
Acronyms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
42. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Infix
Derivational morpheme
Synchronic
43. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Affective connotation
44. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Morphology
Individual/Restricted connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coded connotations
45. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Phonetics
Diachronic
Suffix
46. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Utterance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Manner
47. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Morpheme
Social connotation
Perlocutionary Act
48. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Maxim of quality
Four components of sounds
Social connotation
Blends
49. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Reflected connotation
Social connotation
Blends
Passive
50. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of Manner
Descriptive
Archaism
Maxim of relevance