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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. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Question
Cohesion
Idioms
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Four components of sounds
Calque
Particle hopping
Borrowing
3. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Intonation
Particle hopping
Truth value
Coherence
4. A word that has died out
Archaism
Borrowing
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Signified
5. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Invention
Coded connotations
Referent
Affective connotation
6. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Synchronic
7. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Backformation
Homonyms
Utterance
8. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Prescriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Implicature
Denotation
9. The rise and fall of sentences
Transformations
Morphology
Invention
Intonation
10. Mental representation of a word
Flouting
Meaning
Phonetics
Recursion
11. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Question
Polyglot
Derivation
Meaning
12. Affix after the root
Metaphor
Context
Suffix
Competence
13. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of relevance
Question
Morphology
14. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Idioms
Transformations
Invention
Maxim of Quantity
15. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Neologism
Negation
Universal Grammar
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
16. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Phonetics
Neologism
Signified
Connotation
17. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Derivation
Diachronic
Denotation
Phoneme
18. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Semantic features
Metonymy
Morphology
Meaning
19. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Signifier
Maxim of quality
Four processes by which we produce sound
20. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Adjacency Pair
Bound morphemes
Dative Movement
Derivational morpheme
21. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Clipping
Sign
Phonology
22. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Maxim of relevance
Utterance
Language planning
Backformation
23. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Morpheme
Acronyms
Shibboleth
Social connotation
24. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Linguistics
Adjacency Pair
Shibboleth
Infix
25. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Signifier
Lexicon
Compounding
26. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Collocative connotation
Truth value
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Ambiguity
27. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Linguistics
Derivation
Dative Movement
28. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Blends
Coded connotations
Free morphemes
Inference
29. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Illocutionary Act
Deixis
Maxim of relevance
30. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Sign
Competence
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
31. Affix before the root
Prefix
Signifier
Metonymy
Perlocutionary Act
32. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Signified
Sign
Performance
Borrowing
33. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Speech Act
Presupposition
Phonology
Lexicon
34. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Reflected connotation
Cohesion
Idioms
Social connotation
35. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Maxim of relevance
Deixis
Derivation
Universal Grammar
36. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Synchronic
Maxim of quality
Syntax
Shibboleth
37. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Sign
Language planning
International Phonetic Alphabet
Affective connotation
38. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Kernel sentence
Perlocutionary Act
Performance
39. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Syntax
Denotation
Phoneme
Derivation
40. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Question
Descriptive
Metaphor
Coded connotations
41. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Borrowing
Signified
Three types of articulations
Lexicon
42. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Invention
Morpheme
Borrowing
Coherence
43. Affix after the root
Suffix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
Bound morphemes
44. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Diachronic
Inflectional morpheme
Dative Movement
Compounding
45. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Phonetics
Synchronic
Negation
Inference
46. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Prefix
Illocutionary Act
Bound morphemes
Collocative connotation
47. The meaning of a sign
Neologism
Acronyms
Lexicon
Signified
48. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Phonology
Maxim of Manner
International Phonetic Alphabet
Polyglot
49. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Inflectional morpheme
Pragmatics
50. The rise and fall of sentences
Coded connotations
Language planning
Four components of sounds
Intonation