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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. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
International Phonetic Alphabet
Performance
Individual/Restricted connotation
2. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Homonyms
Derivation
Language planning
Semantic features
3. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivational morpheme
Three types of articulations
4. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Recursion
Backformation
Deictics
5. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Synchronic
Particle hopping
Pragmatics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Clipping
Neologism
International Phonetic Alphabet
Collocative connotation
7. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Context
Deixis
Shibboleth
Clipping
8. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Locutionary Act
Compounding
Clipping
Sign
9. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Connotation
Four components of sounds
Collocative connotation
Kernel sentence
10. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Four components of sounds
Semantics
Signifier
International Phonetic Alphabet
11. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Pragmatics
Morpheme
Derivational morpheme
12. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Suffix
Derivational morpheme
Acronyms
Social connotation
13. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Inflectional morpheme
Signified
Individual/Restricted connotation
Inference
14. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Diachronic
Invention
Deixis
Coded connotations
15. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Calque
Cohesion
Prefix
16. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Signifier
Inference
Idioms
Sign
17. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Blends
Intonation
Context
Negation
18. An utterance produced by a speaker
Utterance
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
Context
19. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Passive
Derivation
Metonymy
Social connotation
20. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Deixis
Intonation
Competence
Recursion
21. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Passive
Kernel sentence
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Reflected connotation
22. The ability to produce language - what you know
Semantics
Compounding
Backformation
Competence
23. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Neologism
Calque
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
24. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive
Intonation
Neologism
25. Meaning components
Competence
Infix
Semantic features
Shibboleth
26. One who knows many languages
Deixis
Utterance
Negation
Polyglot
27. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Referent
Negation
Invention
28. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Calque
Flouting
Idioms
Adjacency Pair
29. Affix after the root
Inflectional morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Suffix
Truth value
30. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Meaning
Performance
Backformation
Four processes by which we produce sound
31. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Intonation
Clipping
Derivation
Morphology
32. Affix in the middle of a word
Borrowing
Infix
Archaism
Deictics
33. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Meaning
Affective connotation
Ambiguity
Neologism
34. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Synchronic
Three types of articulations
Backformation
Recursion
35. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Collocative connotation
Neologism
Free morphemes
Dative Movement
36. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Descriptive
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Truth value
Denotation
37. A new word
Performance
Inference
Derivational morpheme
Neologism
38. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Particle hopping
Signifier
Invention
Deixis
39. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Syntax
Deixis
Acronyms
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Signified
Acronyms
Syntax
Social connotation
41. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Linguistics
Polyglot
Truth value
42. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Performance
Diachronic
Flouting
Deixis
43. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Blends
Linguistics
Prescriptive
44. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Calque
Kernel sentence
Four components of sounds
45. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Truth value
Shibboleth
Coherence
Truth value
46. The science that studies language
Bound morphemes
Linguistics
Neologism
Locutionary Act
47. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Dative Movement
Inflectional morpheme
Reflected connotation
Prescriptive
48. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Speech Act
Inference
Acronyms
49. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Coded connotations
Maxim of Quantity
Three types of articulations
Metaphor
50. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Archaism
Diachronic
Language planning
Linguistics