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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. Deals with how sentences are formed
Social connotation
Maxim of quality
Syntax
Individual/Restricted connotation
2. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Lexicon
Blends
Clipping
Four components of sounds
3. One who knows many languages
Minimal pair
Polyglot
Signified
Three types of articulations
4. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Affective connotation
Signifier
Maxim of Quantity
5. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Metonymy
Cohesion
Acronyms
Dative Movement
6. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Blends
Four components of sounds
Passive
Ambiguity
7. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Kernel sentence
Compounding
Context
Lexicon
8. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Homonyms
Performance
Universal Grammar
Derivational morpheme
9. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Coherence
Ambiguity
Diachronic
Utterance
10. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Pragmatics
Pragmatics
Prescriptive
Perlocutionary Act
11. A new word
Homonyms
Neologism
Linguistics
Implicature
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Language planning
Phonology
International Phonetic Alphabet
13. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Passive
Backformation
Borrowing
Maxim of quality
14. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Illocutionary Act
Infix
Presupposition
15. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Passive
Coded connotations
Bound morphemes
Four components of sounds
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Ambiguity
Intonation
Descriptive
Synchronic
17. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Free morphemes
Homonyms
Flouting
Negation
18. An utterance produced by a speaker
Diachronic
Speech Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
19. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Recursion
Calque
Pragmatics
Particle hopping
20. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Prescriptive
Acronyms
Free morphemes
Morphology
21. Affix after the root
Question
Blends
Sign
Suffix
22. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Linguistics
Flouting
Connotation
Question
23. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Semantic features
Cohesion
Phonetics
Dative Movement
24. The rise and fall of sentences
Truth value
Intonation
Sign
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
25. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Performance
Three types of articulations
Affective connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
26. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prescriptive
Linguistics
Deictics
27. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Compounding
Competence
Utterance
Performance
28. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Semantics
Context
Lexicon
29. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Compounding
Dative Movement
Syntax
Four components of sounds
30. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Idioms
Metaphor
Particle hopping
Polyglot
31. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Minimal pair
Metonymy
Infix
32. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Phonology
Derivation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Minimal pair
33. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Illocutionary Act
Acronyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Individual/Restricted connotation
34. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Ambiguity
Cohesion
Signifier
Morpheme
35. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Inflectional morpheme
Synchronic
Reflected connotation
Prefix
36. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Collocative connotation
Metonymy
Presupposition
Maxim of quality
37. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Coherence
Coded connotations
Adjacency Pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
38. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Language planning
Competence
Connotation
Kernel sentence
39. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Maxim of Manner
Signifier
Semantics
40. Mental representation of a word
Connotation
Flouting
Meaning
Denotation
41. A new word
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
Neologism
Compounding
42. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Competence
Inference
Metonymy
43. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Calque
International Phonetic Alphabet
Locutionary Act
Metaphor
44. Deals with the sounds of a language
Context
Phonetics
Minimal pair
Coded connotations
45. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Lexicon
Illocutionary Act
Denotation
Syntax
46. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Sign
Question
Lexicon
Archaism
47. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Calque
Derivation
Semantics
Inference
48. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Compounding
Deictics
Shibboleth
Inference
49. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Derivation
Lexicon
Referent
Prefix
50. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Referent
Dative Movement
Four processes by which we produce sound