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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. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Social connotation
Morphology
Derivational morpheme
Negation
2. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Cohesion
Signified
Inflectional morpheme
3. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Four components of sounds
Deixis
Calque
Kernel sentence
4. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Linguistics
Speech Act
Deixis
Performance
5. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Free morphemes
Ambiguity
Neologism
Metaphor
6. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Descriptive
Blends
Adjacency Pair
Dative Movement
7. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Minimal pair
Diachronic
Question
Truth value
8. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Synchronic
Morphology
Passive
9. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Linguistics
Affective connotation
Acronyms
Recursion
10. Affix in the middle of a word
Performance
Infix
Individual/Restricted connotation
Idioms
11. Deals with the sounds of a language
Collocative connotation
Phonetics
Utterance
Phonology
12. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Prescriptive
Collocative connotation
Denotation
13. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Sign
Reflected connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
14. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Ambiguity
Derivation
Acronyms
15. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Homonyms
International Phonetic Alphabet
Presupposition
16. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Competence
Metaphor
Illocutionary Act
Calque
17. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Sign
Denotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Coherence
18. Mental representation of a word
Maxim of Quantity
Meaning
Dative Movement
Categorizations of Speech Acts
19. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Syntax
Deictics
Deixis
20. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Social connotation
Passive
Calque
Deixis
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Negation
Blends
Coded connotations
Metaphor
22. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Cohesion
Suffix
Locutionary Act
Particle hopping
23. One who knows many languages
Diachronic
Derivational morpheme
Archaism
Polyglot
24. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Idioms
Shibboleth
Performance
25. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Prefix
Transformations
Individual/Restricted connotation
26. Deals with how sentences are formed
Synchronic
Lexicon
Syntax
Reflected connotation
27. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Flouting
Polyglot
Reflected connotation
Shibboleth
28. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Adjacency Pair
Lexicon
Calque
Transformations
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Clipping
Universal Grammar
Collocative connotation
Transformations
30. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Coded connotations
Flouting
Compounding
Calque
31. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Acronyms
Question
Referent
32. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Suffix
Shibboleth
Compounding
33. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Calque
Borrowing
Signifier
34. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Transformations
Connotation
Question
Negation
35. The meaning derived from flouting
Morphology
Maxim of quality
Implicature
Blends
36. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Metonymy
Shibboleth
Competence
Sign
37. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Language planning
Clipping
Maxim of Quantity
Negation
38. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Intonation
Collocative connotation
Compounding
39. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Compounding
Connotation
Collocative connotation
Compounding
40. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Affective connotation
Context
Minimal pair
41. Deals with how sentences are formed
Four components of sounds
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Clipping
Syntax
42. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Homonyms
Denotation
Question
Dative Movement
43. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phonology
Phonology
Metaphor
44. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Derivational morpheme
Cohesion
Coded connotations
Locutionary Act
45. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Dative Movement
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of Manner
46. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Universal Grammar
Speech Act
Illocutionary Act
Derivational morpheme
47. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Perlocutionary Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Inference
48. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Free morphemes
International Phonetic Alphabet
Intonation
49. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Three types of articulations
Presupposition
Backformation
50. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Passive
Semantics
Homonyms
Morphology