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Linguistics Basics
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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. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Social connotation
Performance
Archaism
Minimal pair
2. A word that has died out
Maxim of Quantity
Archaism
Performance
Linguistics
3. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Denotation
Prescriptive
Inference
Maxim of Manner
4. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Locutionary Act
Homonyms
Coded connotations
Particle hopping
5. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Metonymy
Question
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Descriptive
6. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Homonyms
Borrowing
Shibboleth
Language planning
7. An utterance produced by a speaker
Flouting
Pragmatics
Speech Act
Prefix
8. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Question
Truth value
Maxim of Manner
Phonology
9. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Passive
Invention
Flouting
Pragmatics
10. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Performance
Ambiguity
Coherence
Intonation
11. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Diachronic
Clipping
Flouting
12. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Derivation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Social connotation
Diachronic
13. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Dative Movement
Free morphemes
Utterance
Lexicon
14. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Intonation
Morpheme
Particle hopping
15. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Suffix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Semantic features
16. Deals with how sentences are formed
Maxim of Manner
Referent
Syntax
Prefix
17. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Borrowing
Descriptive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Acronyms
18. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Archaism
Individual/Restricted connotation
Borrowing
Categorizations of Speech Acts
19. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Syntax
Derivational morpheme
Calque
Metaphor
20. Deals with the sounds of a language
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phonology
Maxim of Manner
Phonetics
21. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Transformations
Four components of sounds
Inference
22. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Truth value
Sign
Cohesion
Neologism
23. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Referent
Four components of sounds
Flouting
24. Affix in the middle of a word
Clipping
Perlocutionary Act
Cohesion
Infix
25. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Infix
Referent
Denotation
Shibboleth
26. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Free morphemes
Metonymy
Phonology
Collocative connotation
27. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Perlocutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Individual/Restricted connotation
Inflectional morpheme
28. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Intonation
Negation
Ambiguity
Competence
29. One who knows many languages
Implicature
Question
Morphology
Polyglot
30. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Referent
Synchronic
Linguistics
Morpheme
31. Mental representation of a word
Blends
Affective connotation
Language planning
Meaning
32. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Bound morphemes
Question
Borrowing
Prefix
33. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Phonology
Metonymy
Semantic features
Denotation
34. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Idioms
Utterance
Shibboleth
Meaning
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Recursion
Collocative connotation
Competence
Four processes by which we produce sound
36. An utterance produced by a speaker
Inflectional morpheme
Metonymy
Cohesion
Speech Act
37. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Illocutionary Act
Neologism
Lexicon
Phoneme
38. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Presupposition
Derivation
Maxim of quality
39. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Sign
Blends
Presupposition
Intonation
40. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Bound morphemes
Inference
Perlocutionary Act
Flouting
41. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Free morphemes
Kernel sentence
Implicature
42. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Truth value
Illocutionary Act
Invention
Prefix
43. Meaning components
Semantic features
Ambiguity
Passive
Phoneme
44. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Archaism
Particle hopping
Adjacency Pair
Idioms
45. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Polyglot
Transformations
Bound morphemes
Implicature
46. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Sign
Referent
Polyglot
Phonology
47. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Phonetics
Maxim of Quantity
Free morphemes
Denotation
48. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Minimal pair
Passive
Kernel sentence
Inflectional morpheme
49. The meaning derived from flouting
Perlocutionary Act
Compounding
Implicature
Utterance
50. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Homonyms
Phonology
Blends
Four processes by which we produce sound