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Linguistics Basics
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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. Affix before the root
Signified
Metonymy
Prefix
Metaphor
2. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Three types of articulations
Illocutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of relevance
3. The science that studies language
Four components of sounds
Metonymy
Phonology
Linguistics
4. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Inference
Derivation
Semantic features
Passive
5. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Semantic features
Particle hopping
Prescriptive
Question
6. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Inflectional morpheme
Social connotation
Prescriptive
Borrowing
7. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Transformations
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Deictics
8. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Inflectional morpheme
Affective connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Minimal pair
9. The rise and fall of sentences
Idioms
Intonation
Maxim of quality
Morphology
10. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Prefix
Shibboleth
Language planning
Sign
11. Mental representation of a word
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Meaning
Maxim of quality
Speech Act
12. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Polyglot
13. Deals with how sentences are formed
Deixis
Competence
Syntax
Suffix
14. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Acronyms
Semantics
Passive
Derivation
15. Deals with how sentences are formed
Utterance
Syntax
Language planning
Transformations
16. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Prescriptive
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Quantity
Archaism
17. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Free morphemes
Minimal pair
Morpheme
Maxim of Manner
18. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivational morpheme
Universal Grammar
Prefix
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Social connotation
Negation
Invention
20. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Passive
Bound morphemes
Meaning
Particle hopping
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Flouting
Pragmatics
Context
22. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Prefix
Shibboleth
Homonyms
Perlocutionary Act
23. The science that studies language
Transformations
Morpheme
Backformation
Linguistics
24. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Reflected connotation
Infix
Pragmatics
Maxim of Quantity
25. Affix after the root
Suffix
Four processes by which we produce sound
Signified
Morpheme
26. Mental representation of a word
Free morphemes
Four components of sounds
Kernel sentence
Meaning
27. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Derivation
Denotation
Deixis
28. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
Diachronic
29. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Borrowing
Question
Pragmatics
Social connotation
30. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Intonation
Referent
Cohesion
31. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Adjacency Pair
Neologism
Performance
Reflected connotation
32. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Locutionary Act
Locutionary Act
Linguistics
Phonology
33. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Coded connotations
Affective connotation
Locutionary Act
Particle hopping
34. A new word
Four components of sounds
Synchronic
Diachronic
Neologism
35. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Signified
Phonetics
Morphology
36. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Morpheme
Phonology
Infix
Descriptive
37. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Three types of articulations
Cohesion
38. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Minimal pair
Pragmatics
Illocutionary Act
Homonyms
39. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Blends
Three types of articulations
Utterance
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Illocutionary Act
Negation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Affective connotation
41. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Four components of sounds
Sign
Signifier
42. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Archaism
Metonymy
International Phonetic Alphabet
Invention
43. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Flouting
Maxim of quality
Phonology
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
44. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Ambiguity
Collocative connotation
Truth value
Signified
45. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Adjacency Pair
Universal Grammar
Coherence
Connotation
46. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Question
Polyglot
Backformation
Social connotation
47. Meaning components
Kernel sentence
Semantic features
Maxim of relevance
Suffix
48. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Adjacency Pair
Phonology
Metonymy
Context
49. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Competence
Shibboleth
Four components of sounds
Maxim of relevance
50. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Maxim of quality
Utterance
Metaphor