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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. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Derivation
Coded connotations
Speech Act
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Performance
Kernel sentence
Lexicon
Particle hopping
3. The rise and fall of sentences
Phoneme
Intonation
Kernel sentence
Negation
4. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Archaism
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Polyglot
5. The ability to produce language - what you know
Truth value
Competence
Syntax
Maxim of Manner
6. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Invention
Denotation
Neologism
7. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Collocative connotation
Dative Movement
Transformations
8. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Signified
Infix
Transformations
9. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Presupposition
Deictics
Derivation
Compounding
10. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Clipping
Phoneme
Particle hopping
International Phonetic Alphabet
11. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Affective connotation
Utterance
Prescriptive
12. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Negation
Metaphor
Speech Act
13. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Morphology
Semantics
Free morphemes
Kernel sentence
14. The meaning of a sign
Question
Metaphor
Signified
Utterance
15. An utterance produced by a speaker
Sign
Connotation
Speech Act
Inflectional morpheme
16. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of relevance
Implicature
Particle hopping
17. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Phonetics
Individual/Restricted connotation
Morphology
Metaphor
18. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Calque
Semantics
Negation
Four components of sounds
19. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Infix
Flouting
Connotation
Perlocutionary Act
20. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Inference
Referent
Particle hopping
Invention
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Dative Movement
Maxim of Manner
Context
22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Signified
Sign
Morpheme
23. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Adjacency Pair
Synchronic
Referent
Three types of articulations
24. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Kernel sentence
Speech Act
Idioms
Inference
25. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Acronyms
Performance
Context
26. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Truth value
Individual/Restricted connotation
27. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Descriptive
Illocutionary Act
Pragmatics
Phonology
28. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Clipping
Four processes by which we produce sound
Context
29. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Suffix
Infix
Phoneme
Borrowing
30. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Neologism
Denotation
Passive
Competence
31. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Acronyms
Connotation
Adjacency Pair
Compounding
32. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Shibboleth
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of quality
Transformations
33. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Particle hopping
Infix
Performance
Particle hopping
34. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Meaning
Shibboleth
Four processes by which we produce sound
Question
35. Deals with how sentences are formed
Homonyms
Locutionary Act
Perlocutionary Act
Syntax
36. Mental representation of a word
Deixis
Particle hopping
Meaning
Reflected connotation
37. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Inference
Semantic features
Individual/Restricted connotation
38. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Universal Grammar
Metaphor
Performance
Four components of sounds
39. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Invention
Locutionary Act
Derivation
Maxim of Quantity
40. A word that has died out
Social connotation
Deictics
Homonyms
Archaism
41. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Question
Dative Movement
Bound morphemes
Negation
42. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Social connotation
Presupposition
Synchronic
Affective connotation
43. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Borrowing
Utterance
Passive
Social connotation
44. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Intonation
Morphology
Truth value
45. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Presupposition
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
46. A word that has died out
Neologism
Archaism
Acronyms
Locutionary Act
47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Perlocutionary Act
Sign
Cohesion
Archaism
48. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Maxim of quality
Performance
Semantics
Truth value
49. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Lexicon
Pragmatics
Intonation
Prescriptive
50. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Signifier
Context
Lexicon
Calque