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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. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Bound morphemes
Context
Question
2. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Acronyms
Pragmatics
Compounding
3. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Phonetics
Locutionary Act
Semantics
Context
4. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Suffix
Lexicon
Semantic features
Homonyms
5. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Signifier
Language planning
Homonyms
Transformations
6. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Pragmatics
Universal Grammar
Phonology
Borrowing
7. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Maxim of relevance
Context
Deixis
Four components of sounds
8. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Compounding
Language planning
Cohesion
Coherence
9. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Blends
Collocative connotation
Polyglot
Acronyms
10. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Borrowing
Social connotation
Acronyms
11. The meaning derived from flouting
Phonology
Phonetics
Implicature
Referent
12. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phonetics
Truth value
Phoneme
Linguistics
13. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Adjacency Pair
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of quality
Recursion
14. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Derivational morpheme
Metonymy
Context
15. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Coherence
Cohesion
Free morphemes
Connotation
16. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Semantic features
Deictics
Context
Phoneme
17. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Bound morphemes
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metonymy
18. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Derivational morpheme
Connotation
Negation
Signified
19. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Kernel sentence
Morpheme
Ambiguity
Derivational morpheme
20. Meaning components
Borrowing
Semantic features
Denotation
Idioms
21. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of quality
Calque
Diachronic
22. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Calque
Adjacency Pair
Diachronic
Lexicon
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Semantics
Denotation
Meaning
Performance
24. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Coded connotations
Pragmatics
Intonation
25. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Descriptive
Pragmatics
Deixis
Shibboleth
26. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Synchronic
Presupposition
Deictics
27. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Coded connotations
Truth value
Derivation
Linguistics
28. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Coded connotations
Maxim of Quantity
Minimal pair
Particle hopping
29. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Utterance
Passive
Truth value
30. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Truth value
Collocative connotation
31. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Recursion
Context
Universal Grammar
Semantics
32. Affix before the root
Sign
Morpheme
Prefix
Deixis
33. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Negation
Metonymy
Reflected connotation
Morpheme
34. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phonetics
Passive
Idioms
Maxim of Quantity
35. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Locutionary Act
Signifier
Pragmatics
Borrowing
36. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Metaphor
Signifier
Context
International Phonetic Alphabet
37. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Intonation
Deixis
Deictics
Ambiguity
38. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Denotation
Flouting
Referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
39. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Shibboleth
Polyglot
Competence
40. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Inference
Recursion
Reflected connotation
Semantics
41. A word that has died out
Coherence
Utterance
Deixis
Archaism
42. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Backformation
Three types of articulations
Prefix
Pragmatics
43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Morpheme
Neologism
44. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Descriptive
Invention
Signifier
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
45. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Derivation
Descriptive
Calque
Signifier
46. Mental representation of a word
Intonation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Meaning
Reflected connotation
47. Deals with how sentences are formed
Deictics
Phonetics
Flouting
Syntax
48. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Phoneme
Pragmatics
Derivation
49. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Minimal pair
Free morphemes
Adjacency Pair
Four components of sounds
50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Competence
Utterance
Deixis
Semantic features