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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Negation
Syntax
Prescriptive
Semantic features
2. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Semantic features
Maxim of Quantity
Denotation
3. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Clipping
Universal Grammar
Kernel sentence
4. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Transformations
Dative Movement
Truth value
Suffix
5. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Flouting
Semantics
Backformation
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Derivation
Social connotation
Compounding
Categorizations of Speech Acts
7. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Coherence
Morpheme
Performance
8. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Coded connotations
Pragmatics
Morphology
Connotation
9. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Pragmatics
Derivational morpheme
Borrowing
10. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Ambiguity
Maxim of Manner
Sign
Bound morphemes
11. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Morphology
Semantic features
Illocutionary Act
Social connotation
12. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Diachronic
Coherence
Competence
13. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Negation
Idioms
Question
Four processes by which we produce sound
14. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Coherence
Metaphor
Infix
Denotation
15. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Lexicon
Ambiguity
Derivation
16. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Adjacency Pair
Performance
Deictics
Descriptive
17. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Universal Grammar
Kernel sentence
Calque
Compounding
18. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Universal Grammar
19. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Speech Act
Maxim of quality
Suffix
Calque
20. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Signified
Negation
Backformation
Acronyms
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Sign
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
Free morphemes
22. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Free morphemes
Locutionary Act
Linguistics
Performance
23. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Kernel sentence
Passive
Inference
24. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Meaning
Speech Act
Phonology
Polyglot
25. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Truth value
Archaism
Metaphor
26. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Blends
Metonymy
Social connotation
Intonation
27. Meaning components
Backformation
Suffix
Deictics
Semantic features
28. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Dative Movement
29. The overall meaning of a text
Transformations
Signified
Derivation
Coherence
30. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Semantic features
Truth value
Four processes by which we produce sound
31. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Adjacency Pair
Performance
Acronyms
32. A sentence in context
Morphology
Intonation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Utterance
33. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Clipping
Morphology
Individual/Restricted connotation
Passive
34. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Competence
Diachronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Signifier
35. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Derivation
Free morphemes
Adjacency Pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
36. The rise and fall of sentences
Maxim of Quantity
Calque
Intonation
Pragmatics
37. The science that studies language
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Backformation
Linguistics
38. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
Illocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Negation
39. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Prescriptive
Maxim of relevance
Homonyms
40. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Context
Coherence
Phonetics
41. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Recursion
Truth value
Shibboleth
Three types of articulations
42. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Coded connotations
Presupposition
Calque
Pragmatics
43. Affix after the root
Question
Suffix
Invention
Illocutionary Act
44. Affix before the root
Four processes by which we produce sound
Idioms
Prefix
Homonyms
45. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Inference
Ambiguity
Deictics
Affective connotation
46. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of quality
Maxim of Manner
Implicature
Archaism
47. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Free morphemes
Transformations
Prescriptive
Negation
48. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Sign
Presupposition
Universal Grammar
Recursion
49. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Truth value
Archaism
Synchronic
Minimal pair
50. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Phonetics
Particle hopping
Pragmatics