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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
Bound morphemes
Morpheme
Coded connotations
Maxim of relevance
2. Deals with the sounds of a language
International Phonetic Alphabet
Synchronic
Signified
Phonetics
3. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Synchronic
Inflectional morpheme
Context
Social connotation
4. A sentence in context
Utterance
Calque
Clipping
Kernel sentence
5. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Context
Phonetics
Maxim of quality
6. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Performance
Minimal pair
Homonyms
7. Affix in the middle of a word
Implicature
Infix
Acronyms
Maxim of relevance
8. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Cohesion
Coherence
Implicature
9. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Derivational morpheme
Shibboleth
Phonology
Synchronic
10. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Coherence
Implicature
Metonymy
Context
11. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Minimal pair
Phonology
Three types of articulations
12. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Derivational morpheme
Compounding
Deixis
13. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Linguistics
Referent
Three types of articulations
Transformations
14. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Coherence
Archaism
Passive
15. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Particle hopping
Recursion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Ambiguity
16. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Phoneme
Calque
Maxim of quality
Semantics
17. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Metaphor
Borrowing
Phoneme
Implicature
18. The meaning of a sign
Archaism
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Performance
Signified
19. Deals with how sentences are formed
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Syntax
Utterance
Phoneme
20. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Negation
Deixis
Illocutionary Act
Cohesion
21. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Polyglot
Syntax
Illocutionary Act
Meaning
22. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Performance
Derivation
Bound morphemes
Lexicon
23. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Phonology
Minimal pair
Descriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
24. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Backformation
Pragmatics
Dative Movement
25. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Flouting
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Semantics
Linguistics
26. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Language planning
Signifier
Neologism
Transformations
27. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Perlocutionary Act
Inflectional morpheme
Free morphemes
Deixis
28. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Metaphor
Maxim of quality
Context
Backformation
29. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Inflectional morpheme
Metaphor
Neologism
Performance
30. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Inflectional morpheme
Morphology
Denotation
Homonyms
31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Negation
Lexicon
Linguistics
Minimal pair
32. A word that has died out
Kernel sentence
Archaism
Recursion
Deixis
33. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Universal Grammar
Descriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Calque
34. Mental representation of a word
Locutionary Act
Compounding
Meaning
Maxim of relevance
35. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Cohesion
Idioms
Acronyms
Synchronic
36. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Flouting
Shibboleth
Coded connotations
Denotation
37. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Coherence
38. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Context
Neologism
Connotation
Deictics
39. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Signifier
Particle hopping
Phonology
Borrowing
40. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Reflected connotation
Invention
Connotation
Bound morphemes
41. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
Invention
Speech Act
42. A new word
Inflectional morpheme
Neologism
Polyglot
Denotation
43. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Phonology
Polyglot
Referent
Utterance
44. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Passive
Prefix
Shibboleth
Dative Movement
45. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Universal Grammar
Backformation
Metonymy
Sign
46. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Semantic features
Negation
Three types of articulations
Homonyms
47. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Transformations
Inference
International Phonetic Alphabet
48. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Morpheme
Speech Act
Perlocutionary Act
Deixis
49. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Morphology
Coherence
Syntax
Truth value
50. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Semantic features
Question
Meaning
Metaphor