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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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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. Meaning components
Shibboleth
Acronyms
Semantic features
Blends
2. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Phonology
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
3. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Semantics
Descriptive
Performance
Neologism
4. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Cohesion
Coded connotations
Calque
Lexicon
5. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Polyglot
Illocutionary Act
Reflected connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
6. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Passive
Universal Grammar
Ambiguity
Categorizations of Speech Acts
7. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Metonymy
Free morphemes
Presupposition
Prescriptive
8. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Transformations
Context
Truth value
Flouting
9. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Deixis
Phonology
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
10. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prefix
Four components of sounds
Metaphor
11. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Metaphor
Synchronic
Connotation
Recursion
12. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Invention
Phonology
Passive
Negation
13. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Four processes by which we produce sound
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Free morphemes
Recursion
14. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Prescriptive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Diachronic
Context
15. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Acronyms
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of relevance
16. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Maxim of quality
Transformations
Perlocutionary Act
Phoneme
17. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Infix
Prefix
Universal Grammar
Passive
18. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Phoneme
Descriptive
Prescriptive
Clipping
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Three types of articulations
Phonetics
Affective connotation
Blends
20. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Synchronic
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
21. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Synchronic
Compounding
Borrowing
Performance
22. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Cohesion
Shibboleth
Synchronic
Connotation
23. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Morphology
Descriptive
Metonymy
Acronyms
24. The overall meaning of a text
Suffix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Coherence
Morpheme
25. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of quality
Referent
Four processes by which we produce sound
26. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Speech Act
Invention
Diachronic
Collocative connotation
27. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Inflectional morpheme
Reflected connotation
Deictics
28. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Phoneme
Truth value
Phonetics
29. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Polyglot
Maxim of quality
30. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Cohesion
Neologism
Illocutionary Act
31. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Locutionary Act
Synchronic
Universal Grammar
32. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
33. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Language planning
Blends
34. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Bound morphemes
Question
Referent
Denotation
35. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Referent
Descriptive
Truth value
36. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Social connotation
Derivational morpheme
Universal Grammar
37. An utterance produced by a speaker
Ambiguity
Clipping
Speech Act
Clipping
38. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Implicature
Prefix
Cohesion
Derivation
39. The overall meaning of a text
Minimal pair
Affective connotation
Backformation
Coherence
40. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Phoneme
Prefix
Particle hopping
41. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Performance
Lexicon
Morpheme
42. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Transformations
Prescriptive
Competence
Sign
43. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Locutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Clipping
Derivational morpheme
44. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Neologism
Connotation
Connotation
45. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Four processes by which we produce sound
Recursion
Suffix
Language planning
46. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Maxim of Quantity
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phonology
Dative Movement
47. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Three types of articulations
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
48. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Infix
Metonymy
Shibboleth
Reflected connotation
49. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Coherence
Metonymy
Transformations
Prescriptive
50. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Sign
Denotation
Homonyms
Semantics