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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Derivational morpheme
Homonyms
Perlocutionary Act
Shibboleth
2. A sentence in context
Utterance
Particle hopping
Descriptive
Intonation
3. Deals with how sentences are formed
Descriptive
Compounding
Transformations
Syntax
4. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Utterance
Cohesion
Metaphor
International Phonetic Alphabet
5. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Phonology
Cohesion
Semantics
Shibboleth
6. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Polyglot
Diachronic
Passive
Synchronic
7. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Locutionary Act
Neologism
Archaism
8. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Idioms
Dative Movement
Adjacency Pair
9. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Question
Polyglot
Particle hopping
Descriptive
10. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Transformations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Three types of articulations
Universal Grammar
11. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Borrowing
Maxim of relevance
Negation
12. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Language planning
Idioms
Inference
Derivational morpheme
13. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Language planning
Connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Derivational morpheme
14. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Backformation
Borrowing
Cohesion
15. Deals with how sentences are formed
Adjacency Pair
Affective connotation
Syntax
Infix
16. One who knows many languages
Flouting
Maxim of quality
Locutionary Act
Polyglot
17. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Homonyms
Signifier
Metaphor
Blends
18. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Prefix
Semantics
Affective connotation
Phonology
19. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Particle hopping
International Phonetic Alphabet
Presupposition
20. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Social connotation
Maxim of Manner
Perlocutionary Act
Minimal pair
21. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Utterance
Phoneme
Semantics
22. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Inflectional morpheme
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metonymy
Referent
23. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Morpheme
Meaning
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
24. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Passive
Adjacency Pair
Signifier
25. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Morphology
Minimal pair
Derivational morpheme
26. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Semantic features
Flouting
Collocative connotation
Acronyms
27. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Context
Pragmatics
Ambiguity
Phoneme
28. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Context
Lexicon
Particle hopping
Kernel sentence
29. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Referent
Passive
Morphology
Locutionary Act
30. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of quality
Phonetics
Performance
31. The rise and fall of sentences
Reflected connotation
Passive
Meaning
Intonation
32. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Metonymy
Speech Act
Three types of articulations
33. Affix in the middle of a word
Minimal pair
Language planning
Infix
Maxim of relevance
34. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Inference
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metaphor
35. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Collocative connotation
Particle hopping
Four components of sounds
36. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Speech Act
Locutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Language planning
37. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Recursion
Collocative connotation
Referent
38. Meaning components
Metonymy
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
Semantic features
39. Deals with the sounds of a language
Particle hopping
Cohesion
Dative Movement
Phonetics
40. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Four components of sounds
Diachronic
Maxim of Manner
41. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Synchronic
Prescriptive
Ambiguity
Collocative connotation
42. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Morphology
Shibboleth
43. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Meaning
Minimal pair
Three types of articulations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
44. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Speech Act
Recursion
Backformation
Maxim of Quantity
45. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Four components of sounds
Inflectional morpheme
Particle hopping
Minimal pair
46. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Backformation
Three types of articulations
Maxim of quality
Invention
47. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Coherence
Shibboleth
Inference
Performance
48. The meaning derived from flouting
Minimal pair
Descriptive
Implicature
Deixis
49. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Free morphemes
Acronyms
Cohesion
Morphology
50. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Presupposition
Reflected connotation
Morpheme
Intonation