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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. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Polyglot
Synchronic
Kernel sentence
2. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Bound morphemes
Derivational morpheme
Minimal pair
3. Affix before the root
Morpheme
Prefix
Phonetics
Maxim of Quantity
4. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Free morphemes
Blends
5. A sentence in context
Utterance
Recursion
Borrowing
Coded connotations
6. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Utterance
Homonyms
Illocutionary Act
Collocative connotation
7. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Suffix
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Quantity
Linguistics
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Calque
Collocative connotation
Speech Act
Shibboleth
9. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of Quantity
Homonyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Question
10. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Morphology
Passive
Metaphor
Pragmatics
11. A word that has died out
Three types of articulations
Passive
Clipping
Archaism
12. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Calque
Flouting
Transformations
Presupposition
13. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Suffix
Calque
Affective connotation
Minimal pair
14. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Phonology
Signified
Linguistics
15. Meaning components
Ambiguity
Context
Flouting
Semantic features
16. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Blends
Negation
Free morphemes
Presupposition
17. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Pragmatics
Maxim of relevance
Coded connotations
Adjacency Pair
18. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Universal Grammar
Prefix
Three types of articulations
Syntax
19. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Archaism
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Invention
Affective connotation
20. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Backformation
Four components of sounds
Implicature
Categorizations of Speech Acts
21. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Calque
Maxim of relevance
Acronyms
22. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Illocutionary Act
Universal Grammar
Cohesion
Inference
23. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Inflectional morpheme
Homonyms
Calque
24. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Infix
Individual/Restricted connotation
Metaphor
Transformations
25. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Idioms
Borrowing
Bound morphemes
Question
26. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Linguistics
Clipping
Borrowing
Reflected connotation
27. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Signified
Truth value
Reflected connotation
Linguistics
28. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Meaning
Collocative connotation
Recursion
Clipping
29. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Inflectional morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
30. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Synchronic
Lexicon
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
31. An utterance produced by a speaker
Maxim of Manner
Descriptive
Speech Act
Social connotation
32. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Phonetics
Polyglot
Bound morphemes
Recursion
33. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Semantics
Archaism
Utterance
34. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Three types of articulations
Maxim of quality
Synchronic
Negation
35. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Illocutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Invention
Language planning
36. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Blends
Language planning
Negation
37. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Morpheme
Polyglot
38. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Morpheme
Compounding
Maxim of Quantity
39. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Shibboleth
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Competence
40. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Signifier
Deixis
Presupposition
Denotation
41. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Implicature
Ambiguity
Deictics
Truth value
42. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Inference
Semantic features
Referent
Connotation
43. Meaning components
Lexicon
Semantic features
Metaphor
Affective connotation
44. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Context
Implicature
Blends
Collocative connotation
45. Affix after the root
Maxim of quality
Suffix
Connotation
Performance
46. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Universal Grammar
Morphology
Truth value
Performance
47. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Acronyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Meaning
Descriptive
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Adjacency Pair
Coherence
Meaning
Affective connotation
49. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Competence
Semantics
Syntax
50. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Perlocutionary Act
Affective connotation
Phoneme
International Phonetic Alphabet