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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Kernel sentence
Borrowing
Morpheme
Meaning
2. A new word
Context
Signified
Prescriptive
Neologism
3. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Metaphor
Transformations
Maxim of Manner
Categorizations of Speech Acts
4. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Clipping
Metonymy
Bound morphemes
Truth value
5. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Metonymy
Free morphemes
Sign
Deictics
6. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Recursion
Linguistics
7. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
Infix
8. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Coherence
Backformation
Perlocutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
9. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Denotation
Illocutionary Act
Recursion
10. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Sign
Inflectional morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Performance
11. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Maxim of relevance
Infix
Connotation
12. The overall meaning of a text
Signified
Performance
Coherence
Metonymy
13. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Acronyms
Language planning
Collocative connotation
Clipping
14. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Phonetics
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Manner
Four components of sounds
15. Affix before the root
Phonetics
Shibboleth
Prescriptive
Prefix
16. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
Polyglot
Calque
17. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Synchronic
Metonymy
Pragmatics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
18. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Shibboleth
Derivation
Passive
19. Deals with how sentences are formed
Reflected connotation
Language planning
Syntax
Speech Act
20. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Diachronic
Inference
Language planning
21. The science that studies language
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Quantity
Linguistics
Phoneme
22. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Neologism
Transformations
Minimal pair
Social connotation
23. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Cohesion
Phonology
Illocutionary Act
24. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Context
Illocutionary Act
Inflectional morpheme
Morphology
25. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Compounding
Idioms
Phonetics
Connotation
26. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Phonology
Signified
Backformation
27. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Diachronic
Semantics
Context
Homonyms
28. The science that studies language
Cohesion
Pragmatics
Linguistics
Denotation
29. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Reflected connotation
Diachronic
Three types of articulations
Metonymy
30. A sentence in context
Utterance
Question
Maxim of Quantity
Social connotation
31. The rise and fall of sentences
Negation
Coded connotations
Intonation
Metaphor
32. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Semantics
Perlocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Utterance
33. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Reflected connotation
Neologism
Adjacency Pair
34. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Maxim of relevance
Connotation
Lexicon
Ambiguity
35. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Truth value
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
36. A word that has died out
Adjacency Pair
Archaism
Synchronic
Performance
37. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Presupposition
Universal Grammar
Flouting
38. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Invention
Perlocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Recursion
39. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Four processes by which we produce sound
Truth value
Recursion
Derivational morpheme
40. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Inference
Presupposition
Linguistics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
41. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Perlocutionary Act
Idioms
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
42. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Infix
Universal Grammar
Reflected connotation
Flouting
43. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Maxim of Manner
Negation
Recursion
Ambiguity
44. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Perlocutionary Act
Signifier
International Phonetic Alphabet
Synchronic
45. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Backformation
Speech Act
Phonology
Passive
46. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Denotation
Sign
Particle hopping
Ambiguity
47. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Calque
Metonymy
Deictics
48. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Adjacency Pair
Idioms
Transformations
Inflectional morpheme
49. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Affective connotation
Meaning
Kernel sentence
Language planning
50. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Collocative connotation
Homonyms
Linguistics
Descriptive