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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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1. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Deixis
Synchronic
Signifier
Maxim of Manner
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Quantity
Borrowing
3. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Implicature
Free morphemes
Speech Act
4. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Negation
Maxim of relevance
Question
International Phonetic Alphabet
5. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Backformation
Sign
Perlocutionary Act
Denotation
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Maxim of quality
Ambiguity
Particle hopping
Social connotation
7. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Backformation
Presupposition
Collocative connotation
Sign
8. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Phonology
Meaning
Flouting
9. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Signifier
Coded connotations
Truth value
Idioms
10. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Passive
Social connotation
11. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Transformations
Minimal pair
Maxim of Quantity
Intonation
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Backformation
Speech Act
Affective connotation
Dative Movement
13. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Bound morphemes
Affective connotation
Diachronic
Archaism
14. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Descriptive
Lexicon
Infix
Illocutionary Act
15. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Manner
Free morphemes
Pragmatics
16. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Kernel sentence
Inflectional morpheme
Suffix
17. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Perlocutionary Act
Phoneme
Metaphor
Deixis
18. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Four components of sounds
Phonetics
Calque
Truth value
19. Deals with how sentences are formed
Infix
Denotation
Syntax
Flouting
20. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Reflected connotation
Invention
Categorizations of Speech Acts
21. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Truth value
Descriptive
Adjacency Pair
Sign
22. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Signifier
Maxim of quality
Speech Act
Maxim of Quantity
23. Meaning components
Phonology
Blends
Semantic features
Cohesion
24. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Idioms
Synchronic
Dative Movement
Truth value
25. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Maxim of Manner
Linguistics
Passive
Collocative connotation
26. The ability to produce language - what you know
Four processes by which we produce sound
Kernel sentence
Competence
Idioms
27. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Reflected connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
28. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Implicature
Context
Idioms
29. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Cohesion
Invention
Individual/Restricted connotation
30. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Referent
Maxim of relevance
Illocutionary Act
31. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Negation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Individual/Restricted connotation
Kernel sentence
32. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Presupposition
Homonyms
Maxim of relevance
33. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Minimal pair
Shibboleth
Bound morphemes
Borrowing
34. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Lexicon
Signifier
Reflected connotation
Blends
35. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Sign
Universal Grammar
Negation
Four processes by which we produce sound
36. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Invention
Semantic features
Suffix
37. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Individual/Restricted connotation
Sign
Prescriptive
Cohesion
38. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Backformation
Coherence
Blends
39. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Metonymy
Particle hopping
Context
Inflectional morpheme
40. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Blends
Homonyms
Coherence
Referent
41. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Free morphemes
Four components of sounds
Presupposition
Three types of articulations
42. Affix before the root
Signified
Inflectional morpheme
Phonology
Prefix
43. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Connotation
Signifier
Phoneme
44. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Illocutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
45. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Maxim of Manner
Compounding
Meaning
Morphology
46. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Backformation
Pragmatics
Archaism
Particle hopping
47. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Calque
Affective connotation
Denotation
Kernel sentence
48. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Metaphor
Connotation
Speech Act
49. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Reflected connotation
Context
Individual/Restricted connotation
50. A word that has died out
Backformation
Metonymy
Passive
Archaism