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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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humanities
Instructions:
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. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Ambiguity
Prefix
Suffix
Blends
2. The science that studies language
Maxim of Quantity
Linguistics
Maxim of Manner
Clipping
3. A sentence in context
Metaphor
Deictics
Utterance
Lexicon
4. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Truth value
Prescriptive
Signifier
Phoneme
5. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Meaning
Phoneme
Reflected connotation
6. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Compounding
Presupposition
Individual/Restricted connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
7. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Connotation
Clipping
Archaism
Adjacency Pair
8. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Maxim of Quantity
Suffix
Suffix
9. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Deictics
Bound morphemes
Language planning
Ambiguity
10. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Archaism
Kernel sentence
Four processes by which we produce sound
Universal Grammar
11. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Phonetics
Truth value
Semantic features
Suffix
12. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Cohesion
Phoneme
Minimal pair
13. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Particle hopping
Archaism
Semantic features
14. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Maxim of quality
Four processes by which we produce sound
Implicature
Suffix
15. Affix in the middle of a word
Transformations
Coded connotations
Infix
Signifier
16. The overall meaning of a text
Synchronic
Locutionary Act
Pragmatics
Coherence
17. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Connotation
Derivational morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
18. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Infix
Maxim of Quantity
Dative Movement
Shibboleth
19. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Inflectional morpheme
Speech Act
Dative Movement
Context
20. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Morphology
Ambiguity
Four components of sounds
Semantics
21. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Deixis
Collocative connotation
Truth value
22. The meaning derived from flouting
Neologism
Context
Implicature
Semantic features
23. Meaning components
Performance
Passive
Semantic features
Morphology
24. A sentence in context
Language planning
Polyglot
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Utterance
25. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Connotation
Idioms
Social connotation
26. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Minimal pair
Implicature
Cohesion
27. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Morphology
Ambiguity
Affective connotation
28. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Phoneme
Synchronic
Inflectional morpheme
29. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Minimal pair
Adjacency Pair
Shibboleth
30. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Perlocutionary Act
Calque
Context
Maxim of Quantity
31. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Reflected connotation
Three types of articulations
Metonymy
Metaphor
32. A word that has died out
Reflected connotation
Archaism
Transformations
Signifier
33. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Universal Grammar
Negation
Connotation
34. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Performance
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of Manner
Presupposition
35. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Implicature
Referent
Kernel sentence
Shibboleth
36. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Recursion
Signifier
Meaning
Negation
37. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Ambiguity
Backformation
Inflectional morpheme
Ambiguity
38. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Blends
Three types of articulations
Calque
Illocutionary Act
39. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Locutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
Particle hopping
40. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Semantics
Coherence
Coherence
Kernel sentence
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Particle hopping
Intonation
Infix
Collocative connotation
42. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Connotation
Syntax
Acronyms
43. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Diachronic
Speech Act
Lexicon
Maxim of quality
44. Affix before the root
Intonation
Particle hopping
Speech Act
Prefix
45. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Maxim of Manner
Coherence
Maxim of relevance
Backformation
46. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Intonation
Prescriptive
Archaism
Phonology
47. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Question
Referent
Cohesion
Pragmatics
48. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Language planning
Truth value
Four processes by which we produce sound
49. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Social connotation
Prefix
Minimal pair
Maxim of quality
50. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Competence
Inflectional morpheme
Affective connotation
Four components of sounds