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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. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Utterance
Phonology
Referent
Presupposition
2. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Phoneme
Dative Movement
Question
Morphology
3. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Polyglot
Passive
Prefix
Archaism
4. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Prescriptive
Particle hopping
Minimal pair
Metonymy
5. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Metaphor
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Neologism
6. The science that studies language
Signifier
Clipping
Linguistics
Metonymy
7. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Shibboleth
Particle hopping
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of quality
8. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Semantics
Clipping
Phoneme
Question
9. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Descriptive
Archaism
Flouting
Neologism
10. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Infix
Inflectional morpheme
Ambiguity
Archaism
11. The meaning derived from flouting
Illocutionary Act
Implicature
Competence
Passive
12. The rise and fall of sentences
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Shibboleth
Intonation
Four components of sounds
13. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Coded connotations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Recursion
14. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Sign
Question
Language planning
Minimal pair
15. A sentence in context
Diachronic
Utterance
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
16. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Neologism
Truth value
Maxim of Quantity
Sign
17. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Metonymy
Language planning
Calque
18. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Blends
Prefix
Implicature
19. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Archaism
Backformation
Morphology
20. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Prescriptive
Language planning
Cohesion
21. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Collocative connotation
Metaphor
Deixis
Denotation
22. Affix in the middle of a word
Signifier
Infix
Inflectional morpheme
Kernel sentence
23. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Question
Idioms
24. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Pragmatics
Coded connotations
Signifier
Invention
25. Affix before the root
Intonation
Prefix
Semantics
Syntax
26. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Metonymy
Referent
Denotation
Semantic features
27. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Coherence
Reflected connotation
Metonymy
28. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coded connotations
Free morphemes
Maxim of Quantity
29. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Calque
Clipping
Derivation
Borrowing
30. An utterance produced by a speaker
Presupposition
Implicature
Referent
Speech Act
31. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
Flouting
32. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Prefix
Maxim of relevance
Phoneme
Competence
33. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Perlocutionary Act
Referent
Affective connotation
Metaphor
34. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Maxim of Manner
Presupposition
Archaism
Dative Movement
35. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Cohesion
Lexicon
Pragmatics
Prefix
36. A new word
Invention
Four processes by which we produce sound
Calque
Neologism
37. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Intonation
Four components of sounds
Inflectional morpheme
Language planning
38. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Lexicon
Maxim of Quantity
39. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Signifier
Individual/Restricted connotation
Three types of articulations
Ambiguity
40. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Inference
Invention
Derivational morpheme
Kernel sentence
41. Meaning components
Semantic features
Individual/Restricted connotation
Transformations
Prescriptive
42. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Truth value
Derivation
Homonyms
Metaphor
43. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Neologism
Blends
Homonyms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
44. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Illocutionary Act
Deictics
Maxim of Manner
Four components of sounds
45. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of relevance
Archaism
Homonyms
Flouting
46. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Context
Compounding
Calque
47. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Individual/Restricted connotation
Descriptive
Particle hopping
48. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Backformation
Blends
Competence
49. The ability to produce language - what you know
Intonation
Competence
Derivation
Affective connotation
50. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Illocutionary Act
Implicature
Signified
Flouting