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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Idioms
Polyglot
Minimal pair
Presupposition
2. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Blends
Metaphor
Maxim of Manner
Three types of articulations
3. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Lexicon
Backformation
Compounding
4. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Kernel sentence
International Phonetic Alphabet
Pragmatics
Acronyms
5. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Maxim of quality
Referent
Adjacency Pair
6. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Derivation
Question
Descriptive
Deictics
7. A word that has died out
Signified
Implicature
Archaism
Ambiguity
8. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Locutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Language planning
9. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Adjacency Pair
Locutionary Act
Polyglot
Coherence
10. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Shibboleth
Illocutionary Act
Signified
Perlocutionary Act
11. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Maxim of quality
Ambiguity
Linguistics
Blends
12. An utterance produced by a speaker
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
Illocutionary Act
13. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Meaning
Compounding
Transformations
Three types of articulations
14. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Perlocutionary Act
Morpheme
Derivation
Clipping
15. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Coherence
Maxim of Quantity
Inflectional morpheme
Derivation
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Flouting
Collocative connotation
Reflected connotation
Linguistics
17. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Intonation
Infix
Illocutionary Act
Clipping
18. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Semantics
Presupposition
Inference
Illocutionary Act
19. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Descriptive
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
20. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Deixis
Compounding
Phonology
21. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Prescriptive
Descriptive
Metaphor
22. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Perlocutionary Act
Deixis
Morpheme
Semantics
23. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Recursion
International Phonetic Alphabet
Deictics
Derivational morpheme
24. Meaning components
Maxim of relevance
Kernel sentence
Semantic features
Kernel sentence
25. The meaning derived from flouting
Speech Act
Compounding
Implicature
Performance
26. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Blends
Borrowing
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
27. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Homonyms
Calque
Illocutionary Act
Performance
28. Affix before the root
Bound morphemes
Reflected connotation
Clipping
Prefix
29. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Minimal pair
Neologism
Adjacency Pair
30. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of Quantity
Morpheme
Suffix
Maxim of quality
31. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Negation
Derivational morpheme
Morpheme
32. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Signifier
Coherence
Morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
33. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Passive
Morphology
Minimal pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
34. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Inflectional morpheme
Connotation
Particle hopping
Context
35. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Question
Pragmatics
Signifier
Maxim of Manner
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Speech Act
Maxim of quality
Social connotation
Acronyms
37. A new word
Implicature
Clipping
Individual/Restricted connotation
Neologism
38. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Flouting
Pragmatics
39. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Maxim of quality
Language planning
Transformations
Particle hopping
40. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Borrowing
Pragmatics
Language planning
Lexicon
41. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Lexicon
Invention
Maxim of quality
Derivational morpheme
42. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Prescriptive
Maxim of Quantity
Calque
Free morphemes
43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Dative Movement
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Infix
44. Meaning components
Polyglot
Semantic features
Derivation
Three types of articulations
45. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of relevance
Utterance
Affective connotation
46. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Derivation
Semantic features
Kernel sentence
Question
47. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Backformation
Idioms
Backformation
Descriptive
48. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Utterance
Illocutionary Act
Diachronic
Denotation
49. An utterance produced by a speaker
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
Synchronic
Speech Act
50. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Free morphemes
Neologism