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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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1. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Performance
Metonymy
Semantic features
2. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Maxim of Quantity
Four components of sounds
Performance
Competence
3. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Polyglot
Metaphor
Lexicon
Semantics
4. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Inflectional morpheme
Speech Act
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
5. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Morpheme
Maxim of Manner
Denotation
6. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Presupposition
Maxim of quality
Coded connotations
Syntax
7. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Derivational morpheme
Flouting
Prefix
Adjacency Pair
8. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Phoneme
Idioms
Maxim of relevance
9. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Negation
Free morphemes
Acronyms
Maxim of Quantity
10. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Diachronic
Four components of sounds
Deictics
11. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Context
Morpheme
Implicature
Borrowing
12. Affix before the root
Presupposition
Referent
Prefix
Intonation
13. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Semantics
Particle hopping
Calque
Maxim of Manner
14. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Phoneme
Idioms
Polyglot
International Phonetic Alphabet
15. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Prescriptive
Kernel sentence
Connotation
Maxim of relevance
16. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Three types of articulations
Sign
Homonyms
Signified
17. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonetics
Suffix
Signified
18. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Meaning
Phonetics
Phoneme
Deixis
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Meaning
Deictics
Collocative connotation
Derivation
20. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Prescriptive
Maxim of quality
Adjacency Pair
Backformation
21. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Adjacency Pair
Phonetics
Four processes by which we produce sound
Free morphemes
22. The overall meaning of a text
Free morphemes
Competence
Coherence
Flouting
23. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Implicature
Linguistics
Prefix
Recursion
24. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Pragmatics
Dative Movement
Meaning
Perlocutionary Act
25. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Context
Three types of articulations
Passive
Maxim of Quantity
26. A new word
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Four components of sounds
Compounding
Neologism
27. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Morphology
Metaphor
Particle hopping
Morpheme
28. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Compounding
Signified
Lexicon
29. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Three types of articulations
Acronyms
Calque
Negation
30. Affix after the root
Suffix
Meaning
Backformation
Semantic features
31. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Ambiguity
Free morphemes
Denotation
Perlocutionary Act
32. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Pragmatics
Idioms
Metonymy
Linguistics
33. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Kernel sentence
Morphology
Inflectional morpheme
Prescriptive
34. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Prescriptive
Affective connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metaphor
35. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Referent
Signifier
Dative Movement
36. The overall meaning of a text
Transformations
Coherence
Context
Phonetics
37. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Referent
Speech Act
Clipping
Negation
38. Meaning components
Semantic features
Lexicon
Morpheme
International Phonetic Alphabet
39. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Calque
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Speech Act
Bound morphemes
40. The meaning of a sign
Inference
Inflectional morpheme
Signified
Implicature
41. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Backformation
Suffix
Reflected connotation
Context
42. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Deixis
Flouting
Inflectional morpheme
Sign
43. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Transformations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Particle hopping
Descriptive
44. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Morpheme
Maxim of relevance
Derivational morpheme
Blends
45. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Minimal pair
Maxim of Quantity
Performance
Morphology
46. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Locutionary Act
Idioms
Polyglot
Negation
47. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Synchronic
Clipping
Presupposition
Compounding
48. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Truth value
Diachronic
Universal Grammar
Perlocutionary Act
49. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Question
Three types of articulations
Inference
Denotation
50. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Referent
Maxim of relevance
Inference