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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Collocative connotation
Compounding
Blends
Derivational morpheme
2. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Particle hopping
Semantics
Adjacency Pair
Implicature
3. The meaning derived from flouting
Clipping
Implicature
Particle hopping
Infix
4. One who knows many languages
Infix
Polyglot
Passive
Derivational morpheme
5. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phoneme
Sign
6. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Metaphor
Synchronic
Truth value
Referent
7. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Three types of articulations
Maxim of relevance
Three types of articulations
Presupposition
8. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
Recursion
Sign
9. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Derivation
Descriptive
Phoneme
Coded connotations
10. The meaning of a sign
Phoneme
Signified
Phonology
Derivational morpheme
11. Affix after the root
Derivational morpheme
Suffix
Shibboleth
Categorizations of Speech Acts
12. Deals with the sounds of a language
Backformation
Transformations
Dative Movement
Phonetics
13. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Implicature
Blends
Homonyms
Perlocutionary Act
14. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Dative Movement
Maxim of relevance
Backformation
15. An utterance produced by a speaker
Collocative connotation
Speech Act
Free morphemes
Ambiguity
16. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Flouting
Dative Movement
Referent
17. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Intonation
Signified
International Phonetic Alphabet
18. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
International Phonetic Alphabet
Truth value
Derivational morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
19. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Context
Phonology
Metonymy
20. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Denotation
Flouting
Individual/Restricted connotation
Clipping
21. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Maxim of Quantity
Performance
Transformations
Context
22. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Utterance
Referent
Four processes by which we produce sound
Invention
23. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Metaphor
Individual/Restricted connotation
Blends
Four components of sounds
24. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Idioms
Phonetics
Derivation
25. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Signifier
Maxim of relevance
Four processes by which we produce sound
Flouting
26. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Signified
Question
Language planning
Kernel sentence
27. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Acronyms
Particle hopping
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
28. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Compounding
Phoneme
Question
Transformations
29. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Coded connotations
Four components of sounds
Denotation
Prefix
30. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Semantics
Competence
Descriptive
31. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Ambiguity
Metonymy
Shibboleth
Maxim of Quantity
32. Affix in the middle of a word
Maxim of Quantity
Infix
Deixis
Flouting
33. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Denotation
Dative Movement
Coherence
Derivation
34. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Idioms
Lexicon
Collocative connotation
Inflectional morpheme
35. Meaning components
Semantic features
Suffix
Morpheme
Homonyms
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Utterance
Coherence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Social connotation
37. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Clipping
Truth value
Maxim of quality
38. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Social connotation
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
39. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Neologism
Collocative connotation
Particle hopping
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
40. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Negation
Perlocutionary Act
Suffix
Reflected connotation
41. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Clipping
Dative Movement
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phoneme
42. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Infix
Semantics
Deixis
Linguistics
43. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Language planning
Competence
Context
Derivational morpheme
44. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Signifier
Universal Grammar
Bound morphemes
45. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Suffix
Idioms
Backformation
Transformations
46. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Context
Synchronic
Negation
Acronyms
47. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Phonetics
Prefix
Coded connotations
48. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Shibboleth
Synchronic
Compounding
49. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Maxim of quality
Implicature
Deictics
Negation
50. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Cohesion
Morpheme
Negation
Sign