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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 vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Suffix
Connotation
Polyglot
2. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Utterance
Cohesion
Presupposition
Maxim of relevance
3. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Acronyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Synchronic
Metaphor
4. Mental representation of a word
Four processes by which we produce sound
Homonyms
Meaning
Neologism
5. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Syntax
Kernel sentence
Shibboleth
6. A sentence in context
Polyglot
Transformations
Utterance
Acronyms
7. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Maxim of Quantity
Metaphor
Phoneme
Utterance
8. The ability to produce language - what you know
Transformations
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Competence
9. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Implicature
Lexicon
Truth value
Kernel sentence
10. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Maxim of Manner
Phonology
Context
Four processes by which we produce sound
11. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Signifier
Derivation
Flouting
12. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Dative Movement
Illocutionary Act
Backformation
13. The science that studies language
Context
Archaism
Linguistics
Lexicon
14. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phonology
Connotation
Idioms
Maxim of quality
15. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Lexicon
Social connotation
Linguistics
Presupposition
16. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Signified
Derivational morpheme
Phonetics
Individual/Restricted connotation
17. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Prescriptive
Reflected connotation
Dative Movement
Borrowing
18. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Borrowing
Bound morphemes
Truth value
Passive
19. One who knows many languages
Backformation
Maxim of Manner
Recursion
Polyglot
20. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Semantics
Four components of sounds
Three types of articulations
International Phonetic Alphabet
21. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Inflectional morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Free morphemes
22. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Deictics
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coherence
Idioms
23. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Blends
Polyglot
Compounding
Free morphemes
24. The rise and fall of sentences
Syntax
Intonation
Phonology
Diachronic
25. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Shibboleth
Intonation
Sign
26. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Borrowing
Polyglot
Four processes by which we produce sound
Individual/Restricted connotation
27. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Semantic features
Coded connotations
Morphology
Flouting
28. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Cohesion
Prescriptive
Dative Movement
Acronyms
29. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Morphology
Adjacency Pair
Kernel sentence
Truth value
30. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Collocative connotation
Passive
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
31. A new word
Derivation
Neologism
Three types of articulations
Performance
32. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Language planning
Adjacency Pair
Acronyms
Reflected connotation
33. The rise and fall of sentences
Morpheme
Deixis
Lexicon
Intonation
34. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Presupposition
Speech Act
Metonymy
35. Meaning components
Three types of articulations
Speech Act
Flouting
Semantic features
36. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Deictics
Shibboleth
Archaism
Adjacency Pair
37. Affix in the middle of a word
Language planning
Connotation
Clipping
Infix
38. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Affective connotation
Derivational morpheme
Ambiguity
Sign
39. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Metaphor
Negation
Maxim of Manner
Locutionary Act
40. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Denotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Blends
Collocative connotation
41. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Locutionary Act
Transformations
International Phonetic Alphabet
Compounding
42. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Semantics
Idioms
Negation
Backformation
43. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Maxim of quality
Deictics
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Quantity
44. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Acronyms
Inflectional morpheme
Metonymy
45. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Idioms
Metonymy
Morpheme
46. Deals with the sounds of a language
Context
Intonation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonetics
47. A sentence in context
Social connotation
Utterance
Synchronic
Bound morphemes
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Dative Movement
Social connotation
Ambiguity
Linguistics
49. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Deictics
Semantics
Maxim of relevance
50. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Negation
Syntax
Maxim of relevance