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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. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Flouting
Dative Movement
Signifier
Metonymy
2. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Four components of sounds
Implicature
Shibboleth
Backformation
3. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Coded connotations
Clipping
Maxim of Manner
Suffix
4. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
Shibboleth
Particle hopping
5. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Reflected connotation
Polyglot
Infix
6. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Inflectional morpheme
Deictics
Dative Movement
Clipping
7. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Free morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Morpheme
Semantics
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Question
Calque
Pragmatics
9. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Flouting
Inflectional morpheme
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
10. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Performance
Flouting
Phonology
11. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Recursion
Semantics
Deictics
Negation
12. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Maxim of Manner
Language planning
Four components of sounds
13. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
International Phonetic Alphabet
Presupposition
Context
Minimal pair
14. Deals with the sounds of a language
Flouting
Affective connotation
Coherence
Phonetics
15. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Four components of sounds
Infix
Context
Four processes by which we produce sound
16. A new word
Neologism
Meaning
Invention
Descriptive
17. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Polyglot
Passive
Inference
Free morphemes
18. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Inference
Denotation
Maxim of Quantity
Calque
19. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Cohesion
Phoneme
Connotation
20. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Maxim of quality
Idioms
Flouting
Truth value
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phoneme
Kernel sentence
Collocative connotation
22. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Pragmatics
Coded connotations
Deixis
Lexicon
23. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Adjacency Pair
Pragmatics
Morphology
Maxim of quality
24. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Referent
Maxim of Manner
Particle hopping
Illocutionary Act
25. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Illocutionary Act
Implicature
Transformations
Four components of sounds
26. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Semantic features
Recursion
Reflected connotation
Phoneme
27. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Negation
Sign
Collocative connotation
Utterance
28. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Deictics
Semantic features
Four processes by which we produce sound
Prescriptive
29. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Negation
Affective connotation
Derivational morpheme
Backformation
30. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Question
Blends
Coded connotations
Speech Act
31. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Meaning
Derivational morpheme
Reflected connotation
Truth value
32. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Lexicon
Morpheme
Minimal pair
33. Affix in the middle of a word
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Infix
Bound morphemes
Kernel sentence
34. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Backformation
Cohesion
Phonology
Maxim of relevance
35. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Affective connotation
Blends
Free morphemes
36. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Homonyms
Language planning
Inflectional morpheme
Archaism
37. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Kernel sentence
Syntax
Diachronic
Locutionary Act
38. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Suffix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Performance
Utterance
39. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Phoneme
Free morphemes
Infix
Coherence
40. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Passive
Borrowing
Homonyms
Language planning
41. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Reflected connotation
Denotation
Perlocutionary Act
42. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Four processes by which we produce sound
Free morphemes
Metonymy
43. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coherence
Diachronic
Idioms
44. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prefix
Four processes by which we produce sound
Prescriptive
Infix
45. An utterance produced by a speaker
Free morphemes
Context
Syntax
Speech Act
46. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Passive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Adjacency Pair
Question
47. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Referent
Reflected connotation
Recursion
Universal Grammar
48. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Invention
Blends
Deictics
Affective connotation
49. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Negation
Ambiguity
Derivation
Morphology
50. The science that studies language
Performance
Collocative connotation
Phonology
Linguistics