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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. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Cohesion
Performance
Metonymy
Bound morphemes
2. Affix in the middle of a word
Semantic features
Phoneme
Infix
Language planning
3. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Linguistics
Four components of sounds
Denotation
Idioms
4. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Blends
Maxim of quality
Coded connotations
Cohesion
5. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Illocutionary Act
Referent
Three types of articulations
Reflected connotation
6. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Competence
Speech Act
Derivational morpheme
7. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Cohesion
Semantic features
Signifier
Archaism
8. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Compounding
Deixis
9. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Competence
Prefix
Phoneme
Deixis
10. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Language planning
Prescriptive
Inference
Phonology
11. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Locutionary Act
Phonology
Maxim of Quantity
Compounding
12. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Acronyms
Context
Question
13. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Inference
Ambiguity
Prefix
14. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Derivational morpheme
Locutionary Act
Clipping
Signified
15. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Reflected connotation
Maxim of Manner
Signified
Shibboleth
16. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Universal Grammar
Presupposition
Phonetics
Maxim of Quantity
17. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Linguistics
Collocative connotation
Presupposition
18. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Synchronic
Prefix
Context
Reflected connotation
19. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Performance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metaphor
Invention
20. A sentence in context
Backformation
Presupposition
Utterance
Invention
21. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Inference
Diachronic
Transformations
Reflected connotation
22. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Blends
Passive
Flouting
Synchronic
23. An utterance produced by a speaker
International Phonetic Alphabet
Speech Act
Intonation
Affective connotation
24. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Signifier
Minimal pair
Lexicon
25. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
26. A new word
Connotation
Neologism
Homonyms
Social connotation
27. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Implicature
Phoneme
Flouting
Acronyms
28. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Synchronic
Syntax
Calque
29. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Deictics
Syntax
Individual/Restricted connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
30. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Cohesion
Presupposition
Suffix
31. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Morphology
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Three types of articulations
32. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Derivational morpheme
Implicature
Coded connotations
33. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Dative Movement
Speech Act
Neologism
34. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Suffix
Transformations
Signifier
35. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Illocutionary Act
Prefix
Metaphor
36. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Diachronic
Flouting
Diachronic
Inflectional morpheme
37. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Metonymy
Prescriptive
Presupposition
Backformation
38. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Acronyms
Pragmatics
Derivational morpheme
Phoneme
39. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Particle hopping
Pragmatics
Locutionary Act
Morphology
40. Deals with the sounds of a language
Presupposition
Performance
Phonetics
Polyglot
41. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Suffix
Morphology
Speech Act
Diachronic
42. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Phoneme
Meaning
Lexicon
43. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Prefix
Social connotation
Referent
44. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Bound morphemes
Connotation
Social connotation
Semantics
45. Mental representation of a word
Collocative connotation
Prescriptive
Meaning
Deixis
46. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
47. The meaning of a sign
Affective connotation
Language planning
Signified
Semantic features
48. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Metonymy
Negation
Acronyms
Perlocutionary Act
49. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Illocutionary Act
Sign
Affective connotation
Phonology
50. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Maxim of quality
Lexicon
Phoneme