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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. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Acronyms
Shibboleth
2. The meaning derived from flouting
Inference
Implicature
Reflected connotation
Signifier
3. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Homonyms
Performance
Idioms
Denotation
4. A new word
Homonyms
Deixis
Neologism
Backformation
5. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Presupposition
Particle hopping
Borrowing
Derivation
6. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Infix
Referent
Calque
Adjacency Pair
7. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Three types of articulations
Linguistics
Maxim of Quantity
8. The meaning of a sign
Borrowing
Signified
Speech Act
Morpheme
9. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Referent
Recursion
Signified
Archaism
10. Affix before the root
Suffix
Competence
Calque
Prefix
11. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Coded connotations
Three types of articulations
Maxim of relevance
Metonymy
12. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Signifier
Language planning
Adjacency Pair
Semantics
13. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Ambiguity
Intonation
Diachronic
Inference
14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Dative Movement
Phonetics
Flouting
Phoneme
15. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Archaism
Three types of articulations
Ambiguity
Semantics
16. Meaning components
Flouting
Blends
Semantic features
International Phonetic Alphabet
17. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Phonology
Maxim of quality
18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Linguistics
Synchronic
Calque
Adjacency Pair
19. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Coded connotations
Connotation
Compounding
Utterance
20. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Presupposition
Locutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Minimal pair
21. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Social connotation
Ambiguity
Transformations
Shibboleth
22. A word that has died out
Particle hopping
Speech Act
Archaism
Prescriptive
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Descriptive
Performance
Signified
Referent
24. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Inflectional morpheme
Backformation
Ambiguity
Prefix
25. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Acronyms
Derivational morpheme
Meaning
26. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Phonology
Ambiguity
Context
Archaism
27. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phonology
Sign
Question
28. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Flouting
Minimal pair
Inference
Semantics
29. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Morpheme
Presupposition
Illocutionary Act
Shibboleth
30. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Homonyms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
31. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Bound morphemes
Signified
Performance
Borrowing
32. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Semantics
Universal Grammar
Social connotation
Three types of articulations
33. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Metonymy
Derivation
Semantics
Adjacency Pair
34. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Context
Idioms
Maxim of Quantity
35. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Connotation
Referent
Bound morphemes
Maxim of Manner
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Particle hopping
Affective connotation
Connotation
Connotation
37. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Context
Idioms
Clipping
Lexicon
38. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Ambiguity
Affective connotation
Descriptive
Deictics
39. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Kernel sentence
Context
Homonyms
40. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
Universal Grammar
41. Deals with how sentences are formed
Polyglot
Syntax
Morphology
Coded connotations
42. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Signified
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
Syntax
43. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of relevance
Cohesion
Collocative connotation
Deixis
44. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Metonymy
Particle hopping
Four processes by which we produce sound
45. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Reflected connotation
Phonetics
Context
46. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Suffix
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Utterance
47. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Minimal pair
Homonyms
Coherence
Bound morphemes
48. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Speech Act
Morphology
Maxim of Quantity
49. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Diachronic
Maxim of Manner
Metonymy
50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Diachronic
Signifier
Diachronic
Deixis