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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Sign
Sign
Deixis
2. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Semantics
Acronyms
Presupposition
3. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Kernel sentence
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
Descriptive
4. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Cohesion
Pragmatics
Competence
Reflected connotation
5. Affix before the root
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Context
Free morphemes
6. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Synchronic
Derivation
Negation
Phoneme
7. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Reflected connotation
Morphology
Dative Movement
8. The overall meaning of a text
Flouting
Ambiguity
Negation
Coherence
9. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Synchronic
Collocative connotation
Implicature
Performance
10. The ability to produce language - what you know
Borrowing
International Phonetic Alphabet
Competence
Adjacency Pair
11. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Metonymy
Implicature
Idioms
Collocative connotation
12. Affix after the root
Suffix
Intonation
Compounding
Inference
13. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Lexicon
Social connotation
Presupposition
Transformations
14. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Borrowing
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Truth value
15. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Inflectional morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Acronyms
Compounding
16. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Phonetics
Metaphor
Free morphemes
Competence
17. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Sign
Collocative connotation
Free morphemes
18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Calque
Referent
19. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Locutionary Act
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
Intonation
20. Affix in the middle of a word
Neologism
Morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
Infix
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Passive
Four components of sounds
Social connotation
Morpheme
22. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Backformation
Derivational morpheme
Phoneme
Universal Grammar
23. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Morpheme
Bound morphemes
Morpheme
Coded connotations
24. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Deixis
Denotation
Infix
25. The science that studies language
Blends
Linguistics
Blends
Infix
26. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Question
Shibboleth
Perlocutionary Act
Linguistics
27. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Denotation
Maxim of Quantity
Adjacency Pair
Derivational morpheme
28. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Locutionary Act
Language planning
Universal Grammar
Transformations
29. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of Manner
Cohesion
Coherence
Perlocutionary Act
30. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Pragmatics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phonetics
31. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Meaning
Performance
Deictics
Prescriptive
32. One who knows many languages
Maxim of Quantity
Polyglot
Maxim of Manner
Negation
33. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
International Phonetic Alphabet
Morpheme
Particle hopping
34. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Signifier
Maxim of Quantity
Implicature
Truth value
35. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Deictics
Phonology
Shibboleth
Particle hopping
36. Meaning components
Signified
Truth value
Semantic features
Inflectional morpheme
37. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Derivation
Sign
Ambiguity
Speech Act
38. Meaning components
Four processes by which we produce sound
Semantic features
Borrowing
Semantics
39. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Diachronic
Calque
Coded connotations
Cohesion
40. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Deictics
Recursion
Competence
Maxim of Manner
41. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Acronyms
Prefix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
42. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of relevance
Archaism
Collocative connotation
43. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Lexicon
Transformations
Neologism
Question
44. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Pragmatics
Kernel sentence
Deixis
45. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Metaphor
Compounding
Dative Movement
Passive
46. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Individual/Restricted connotation
Morpheme
Question
Derivation
47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Derivation
48. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Compounding
Acronyms
Cohesion
Prescriptive
49. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Performance
Passive
Denotation
Derivation
50. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Lexicon
Truth value
Coded connotations
Referent