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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 ability to produce language - what you know
Backformation
Competence
Backformation
Idioms
2. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Phonetics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Affective connotation
Three types of articulations
3. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Denotation
Truth value
International Phonetic Alphabet
Affective connotation
4. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Transformations
Signifier
Polyglot
Presupposition
5. Mental representation of a word
Affective connotation
Morphology
Meaning
Four processes by which we produce sound
6. Deals with the sounds of a language
Inference
Presupposition
Speech Act
Phonetics
7. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Meaning
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Denotation
8. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Compounding
Language planning
Adjacency Pair
9. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Perlocutionary Act
Signified
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Meaning
10. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Morphology
Pragmatics
Meaning
11. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Morpheme
Collocative connotation
Ambiguity
12. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Phoneme
Inference
Deixis
Clipping
13. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Performance
Dative Movement
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phoneme
14. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Question
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Semantics
15. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Backformation
Truth value
Metonymy
Prescriptive
16. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Ambiguity
Inference
17. The meaning derived from flouting
Prescriptive
Transformations
Implicature
Intonation
18. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Maxim of Manner
Coded connotations
Passive
19. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Perlocutionary Act
Utterance
Connotation
20. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Adjacency Pair
Syntax
Particle hopping
Descriptive
21. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Passive
Locutionary Act
Truth value
Derivational morpheme
22. The overall meaning of a text
Ambiguity
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coherence
Particle hopping
23. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Signifier
Backformation
Four components of sounds
24. Meaning components
Inflectional morpheme
Deixis
Semantic features
Coded connotations
25. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Clipping
Universal Grammar
Question
26. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Clipping
Coded connotations
Speech Act
27. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Derivation
Maxim of quality
Four processes by which we produce sound
28. A word that has died out
Archaism
Coherence
Referent
Intonation
29. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Prescriptive
Descriptive
Idioms
Affective connotation
30. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Infix
Derivation
Neologism
Categorizations of Speech Acts
31. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Referent
Presupposition
Neologism
Phoneme
32. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Presupposition
Adjacency Pair
Minimal pair
Morpheme
33. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Recursion
Pragmatics
Coded connotations
Locutionary Act
34. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Presupposition
Illocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Sign
35. The overall meaning of a text
Illocutionary Act
Coherence
Dative Movement
Syntax
36. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Inference
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
37. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Performance
Acronyms
Implicature
Language planning
38. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivation
Derivational morpheme
Blends
Maxim of Manner
39. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Semantic features
Metonymy
Clipping
Idioms
40. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Perlocutionary Act
Universal Grammar
Backformation
Maxim of relevance
41. Affix after the root
Linguistics
Suffix
Flouting
Dative Movement
42. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Meaning
Semantics
Locutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
43. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Collocative connotation
Coded connotations
Minimal pair
Metaphor
44. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Negation
Blends
Phonology
Borrowing
45. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
Speech Act
Backformation
46. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Inference
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
47. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Meaning
Phoneme
Backformation
48. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Linguistics
Morpheme
Locutionary Act
49. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Illocutionary Act
Derivation
Cohesion
Suffix
50. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Diachronic
Prescriptive
Social connotation
Maxim of quality