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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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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. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Sign
Speech Act
Dative Movement
2. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Morphology
Neologism
Clipping
3. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Passive
Infix
Ambiguity
Metonymy
4. A new word
Denotation
Neologism
Calque
Meaning
5. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Blends
Morphology
Meaning
Lexicon
6. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Intonation
Universal Grammar
Idioms
Three types of articulations
7. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Universal Grammar
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Referent
Locutionary Act
8. The science that studies language
Maxim of Manner
Signified
Social connotation
Linguistics
9. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Infix
Maxim of Quantity
Linguistics
Descriptive
10. Deals with how sentences are formed
Semantics
Syntax
Phonetics
Flouting
11. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Social connotation
Phonetics
Utterance
12. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Social connotation
Morphology
Performance
Passive
13. Deals with how sentences are formed
Maxim of relevance
Coded connotations
Referent
Syntax
14. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Lexicon
Syntax
Recursion
Referent
15. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Homonyms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of Manner
Affective connotation
16. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Cohesion
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morphology
17. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Perlocutionary Act
Presupposition
Acronyms
Maxim of quality
18. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Clipping
Presupposition
Dative Movement
Speech Act
19. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Truth value
Individual/Restricted connotation
Free morphemes
Blends
20. A word that has died out
Maxim of relevance
Phonology
Calque
Archaism
21. A sentence in context
Utterance
Invention
Individual/Restricted connotation
Truth value
22. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Referent
Synchronic
Descriptive
Prefix
23. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Metonymy
Dative Movement
Particle hopping
Locutionary Act
24. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
Context
Implicature
25. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Coherence
Bound morphemes
Linguistics
26. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Particle hopping
Polyglot
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of quality
27. One who knows many languages
Infix
Polyglot
Backformation
Acronyms
28. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Acronyms
Three types of articulations
Coded connotations
29. The rise and fall of sentences
Backformation
Intonation
Diachronic
Transformations
30. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Particle hopping
Three types of articulations
Borrowing
Referent
31. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Denotation
Morphology
Semantic features
Passive
32. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Sign
Universal Grammar
Lexicon
Reflected connotation
33. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Four components of sounds
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metonymy
Referent
34. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Free morphemes
Passive
Perlocutionary Act
Metonymy
35. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Phonology
Acronyms
Prescriptive
36. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Calque
Dative Movement
Transformations
Maxim of quality
37. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Pragmatics
Flouting
Coded connotations
Adjacency Pair
38. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Coherence
Bound morphemes
Deictics
39. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
Neologism
40. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Infix
Affective connotation
Syntax
41. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Inflectional morpheme
Bound morphemes
Phonetics
Coded connotations
42. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Maxim of Quantity
Social connotation
Flouting
Four components of sounds
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Deictics
Idioms
Affective connotation
Passive
44. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Synchronic
Performance
Implicature
Perlocutionary Act
45. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Invention
Infix
Diachronic
46. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Polyglot
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of Manner
Presupposition
47. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Meaning
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
48. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Signified
Utterance
Minimal pair
Coded connotations
49. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Inference
Derivation
Dative Movement
Minimal pair
50. The overall meaning of a text
Idioms
Suffix
Coherence
Prescriptive