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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. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
Bound morphemes
Presupposition
2. Deals with the sounds of a language
Flouting
Neologism
Perlocutionary Act
Phonetics
3. Affix in the middle of a word
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
Compounding
Infix
4. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Perlocutionary Act
Denotation
Passive
Semantic features
5. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Question
Linguistics
Cohesion
Semantics
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Synchronic
Coherence
Collocative connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
7. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Transformations
Question
Calque
8. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Minimal pair
Blends
9. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Performance
Dative Movement
Idioms
Metaphor
10. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Maxim of quality
Denotation
Sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
11. A new word
Deictics
Referent
Synchronic
Neologism
12. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Deictics
Descriptive
Morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
13. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Performance
Maxim of Quantity
Affective connotation
14. A word that has died out
Three types of articulations
Bound morphemes
Connotation
Archaism
15. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Performance
Maxim of quality
Metonymy
Free morphemes
16. The meaning of a sign
Intonation
Prescriptive
Signified
Categorizations of Speech Acts
17. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Speech Act
Shibboleth
Linguistics
18. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Phonetics
Morphology
Semantics
Four processes by which we produce sound
19. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Intonation
Passive
Semantic features
20. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Individual/Restricted connotation
Morpheme
Descriptive
Minimal pair
21. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Context
Minimal pair
Acronyms
Morpheme
22. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Clipping
Dative Movement
Recursion
Calque
23. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Implicature
Backformation
Recursion
24. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Maxim of Manner
Ambiguity
Pragmatics
Metaphor
25. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Speech Act
Signifier
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Blends
26. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Maxim of Quantity
Morphology
Perlocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
27. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Lexicon
Locutionary Act
Archaism
Maxim of Manner
28. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Maxim of relevance
Affective connotation
Phonology
Referent
29. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Metonymy
Deixis
Inference
30. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Coded connotations
Semantic features
International Phonetic Alphabet
31. A sentence in context
Maxim of Quantity
Prefix
Utterance
Sign
32. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Utterance
Locutionary Act
Invention
Homonyms
33. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Competence
Maxim of Quantity
International Phonetic Alphabet
Utterance
34. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Inference
Truth value
Invention
Categorizations of Speech Acts
35. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Perlocutionary Act
Lexicon
Backformation
36. The overall meaning of a text
Perlocutionary Act
Referent
Coherence
Coded connotations
37. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Performance
Invention
Deixis
Three types of articulations
38. The science that studies language
Signifier
Individual/Restricted connotation
Clipping
Linguistics
39. The ability to produce language - what you know
Minimal pair
Signifier
Competence
Transformations
40. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Lexicon
Presupposition
Perlocutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
41. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Question
Maxim of quality
Neologism
Cohesion
42. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Cohesion
Clipping
Pragmatics
Three types of articulations
43. Deals with the sounds of a language
Lexicon
Phonetics
Borrowing
Backformation
44. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Speech Act
Phonology
Metonymy
45. Affix after the root
Suffix
Blends
Particle hopping
Pragmatics
46. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Coded connotations
Truth value
Morphology
47. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Implicature
Cohesion
Performance
48. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Locutionary Act
Pragmatics
Lexicon
Derivational morpheme
49. A word that has died out
Archaism
Individual/Restricted connotation
Speech Act
Metonymy
50. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Intonation
Kernel sentence
Denotation
Collocative connotation