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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 principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
Morpheme
Homonyms
2. A new word
Neologism
Denotation
Implicature
Kernel sentence
3. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Deixis
Adjacency Pair
Phoneme
Synchronic
4. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Signified
Connotation
Adjacency Pair
Polyglot
5. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Referent
Utterance
Derivation
Neologism
6. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Free morphemes
Maxim of quality
Deixis
7. Affix after the root
Acronyms
Suffix
Idioms
Derivational morpheme
8. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Maxim of quality
Flouting
Morpheme
Presupposition
9. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Cohesion
Collocative connotation
Deixis
Passive
10. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Speech Act
Clipping
Infix
11. Deals with the sounds of a language
Shibboleth
Kernel sentence
Speech Act
Phonetics
12. The science that studies language
Pragmatics
Bound morphemes
Linguistics
Backformation
13. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Lexicon
Truth value
Social connotation
Implicature
14. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Coherence
Flouting
Free morphemes
15. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Clipping
Neologism
Maxim of Manner
16. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Descriptive
Phoneme
Performance
Context
17. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Question
Derivational morpheme
Phonetics
Coherence
18. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Suffix
Kernel sentence
Descriptive
19. Deals with the sounds of a language
Suffix
Phonetics
Recursion
Inference
20. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Sign
Passive
Denotation
21. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Illocutionary Act
Suffix
Four processes by which we produce sound
22. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Synchronic
Metonymy
Competence
23. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Phoneme
Adjacency Pair
Polyglot
Inflectional morpheme
24. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Metonymy
Meaning
Flouting
25. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Deictics
Transformations
Synchronic
Meaning
26. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Phonetics
Passive
Homonyms
27. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Particle hopping
Inference
Maxim of relevance
28. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Maxim of quality
International Phonetic Alphabet
Meaning
29. An utterance produced by a speaker
Four components of sounds
Diachronic
Speech Act
Prefix
30. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Maxim of relevance
Bound morphemes
Homonyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
31. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Coded connotations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivational morpheme
Descriptive
32. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Morpheme
Language planning
Infix
Idioms
33. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Flouting
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of quality
Recursion
34. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Invention
Sign
Calque
Speech Act
35. The science that studies language
Morphology
Performance
Cohesion
Linguistics
36. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Lexicon
Inference
Semantic features
37. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
Particle hopping
Utterance
38. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Affective connotation
Synchronic
Sign
39. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Speech Act
Locutionary Act
Ambiguity
Suffix
40. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Signifier
Inference
Transformations
41. A sentence in context
Utterance
Phonetics
Syntax
Adjacency Pair
42. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Inference
Coded connotations
Clipping
Recursion
43. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Free morphemes
Infix
Locutionary Act
Idioms
44. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Inference
Descriptive
Presupposition
45. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Recursion
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
Pragmatics
46. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Semantics
Coded connotations
Implicature
47. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Kernel sentence
Sign
Deictics
Compounding
48. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Presupposition
Four processes by which we produce sound
Context
Three types of articulations
49. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Adjacency Pair
Intonation
Particle hopping
50. An utterance produced by a speaker
Semantic features
Speech Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair