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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. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Clipping
Perlocutionary Act
Competence
2. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Utterance
Morphology
Metaphor
3. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Referent
Semantic features
Categorizations of Speech Acts
4. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Question
Bound morphemes
Deictics
5. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Morpheme
Homonyms
Dative Movement
6. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Lexicon
Kernel sentence
Prefix
7. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Signifier
Shibboleth
Ambiguity
Recursion
8. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Recursion
Maxim of Manner
Homonyms
Idioms
9. Affix in the middle of a word
Semantics
Infix
Affective connotation
Truth value
10. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Inflectional morpheme
Affective connotation
Social connotation
11. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coherence
Cohesion
12. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Phoneme
Metonymy
Lexicon
Invention
13. The rise and fall of sentences
Idioms
Language planning
Language planning
Intonation
14. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Semantics
Flouting
Four processes by which we produce sound
Categorizations of Speech Acts
15. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Lexicon
Kernel sentence
Acronyms
Borrowing
16. Deals with how sentences are formed
Transformations
Performance
Syntax
Minimal pair
17. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Social connotation
Coded connotations
Neologism
Presupposition
18. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Lexicon
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Metonymy
Flouting
19. Affix in the middle of a word
Morphology
Infix
Context
Inference
20. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Three types of articulations
Clipping
Infix
Acronyms
21. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Presupposition
Blends
Ambiguity
22. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Shibboleth
Lexicon
Inference
23. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Semantic features
Derivational morpheme
Inference
Recursion
24. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Invention
Negation
Lexicon
Cohesion
25. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Negation
Calque
Signifier
Recursion
26. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Archaism
Backformation
Maxim of Manner
27. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Phonology
Morpheme
Competence
Coherence
28. Mental representation of a word
Maxim of Quantity
Meaning
Ambiguity
International Phonetic Alphabet
29. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Illocutionary Act
Idioms
Synchronic
Four processes by which we produce sound
30. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Intonation
Descriptive
Speech Act
31. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Deictics
Illocutionary Act
Derivational morpheme
32. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Language planning
Transformations
Utterance
Affective connotation
33. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Presupposition
Kernel sentence
Phonology
Three types of articulations
34. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prefix
Adjacency Pair
Negation
35. Meaning components
Passive
Derivation
Semantic features
Synchronic
36. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Polyglot
Utterance
Phoneme
37. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Deictics
Truth value
Invention
38. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Derivational morpheme
Prescriptive
Collocative connotation
39. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Blends
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Question
Lexicon
40. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
Inflectional morpheme
Denotation
41. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Deixis
Infix
Transformations
Locutionary Act
42. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Neologism
Lexicon
Truth value
Denotation
43. Deals with how sentences are formed
Suffix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
Syntax
44. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Performance
Free morphemes
Homonyms
Morphology
45. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Speech Act
Flouting
Adjacency Pair
Locutionary Act
46. Meaning components
Adjacency Pair
Semantic features
Illocutionary Act
Phonology
47. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phonology
Idioms
Passive
Maxim of Quantity
48. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Acronyms
Linguistics
Maxim of quality
Calque
49. Affix before the root
Speech Act
Prefix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Inflectional morpheme
50. A new word
Semantic features
Sign
Neologism
Morpheme