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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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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. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Four components of sounds
Speech Act
Reflected connotation
2. A new word
Compounding
Linguistics
Prescriptive
Neologism
3. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Diachronic
Transformations
Dative Movement
Minimal pair
4. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Semantics
Syntax
Meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
5. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Passive
Question
Maxim of Manner
Phonetics
6. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Implicature
Denotation
Free morphemes
Syntax
7. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Shibboleth
Kernel sentence
Compounding
8. The meaning derived from flouting
Affective connotation
Phoneme
Affective connotation
Implicature
9. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Polyglot
Three types of articulations
Connotation
Flouting
10. A word that has died out
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Performance
Semantic features
Archaism
11. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Locutionary Act
Affective connotation
12. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Four processes by which we produce sound
Semantic features
13. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Language planning
Particle hopping
Invention
Maxim of quality
14. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Diachronic
Meaning
Prescriptive
Clipping
15. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Suffix
Language planning
Morpheme
Metonymy
16. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Dative Movement
Free morphemes
Recursion
Sign
17. The ability to produce language - what you know
Implicature
Truth value
Competence
Deixis
18. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Pragmatics
Maxim of Quantity
Locutionary Act
19. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Phonetics
Polyglot
Three types of articulations
Sign
20. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Coded connotations
Denotation
Archaism
21. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Presupposition
Denotation
Synchronic
Connotation
22. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Deictics
Kernel sentence
Signifier
Ambiguity
23. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Presupposition
Signifier
Semantic features
24. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Locutionary Act
Compounding
Four processes by which we produce sound
Borrowing
25. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Clipping
Negation
Blends
Homonyms
26. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Question
Metonymy
Language planning
Implicature
27. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Acronyms
Clipping
Derivation
Coherence
28. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Descriptive
Inflectional morpheme
Context
Phoneme
29. Meaning components
Semantic features
Derivational morpheme
Utterance
Polyglot
30. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Suffix
Sign
Passive
31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Ambiguity
Lexicon
Competence
Denotation
32. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Kernel sentence
Truth value
Phonology
Denotation
33. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
Signifier
34. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
Backformation
Collocative connotation
35. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Syntax
Question
Minimal pair
Maxim of Quantity
36. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Blends
Sign
Meaning
Derivation
37. A word that has died out
Homonyms
Sign
Sign
Archaism
38. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Connotation
Deixis
Language planning
39. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Coherence
Collocative connotation
Homonyms
Referent
40. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Language planning
Adjacency Pair
Referent
Backformation
41. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Bound morphemes
Locutionary Act
Derivation
42. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Suffix
Syntax
Calque
Metaphor
43. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Phonology
Deixis
Perlocutionary Act
Idioms
44. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Language planning
Flouting
Four processes by which we produce sound
Diachronic
45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Coherence
Neologism
Signifier
Linguistics
46. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Recursion
Transformations
Syntax
Performance
47. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Transformations
Kernel sentence
Phoneme
Linguistics
48. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Synchronic
Ambiguity
Metaphor
49. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Derivational morpheme
Dative Movement
Language planning
Intonation
50. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Homonyms
Coherence
Locutionary Act
Flouting