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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. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Utterance
Referent
Maxim of relevance
Syntax
2. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Polyglot
Phonetics
Recursion
3. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Kernel sentence
Social connotation
Dative Movement
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
4. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Flouting
Context
Phonetics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
5. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Derivational morpheme
Language planning
Universal Grammar
Phoneme
6. The overall meaning of a text
Neologism
Particle hopping
Coherence
Derivational morpheme
7. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Diachronic
Inflectional morpheme
Derivational morpheme
Idioms
8. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Pragmatics
Diachronic
Backformation
Language planning
9. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Language planning
Derivational morpheme
Ambiguity
Question
10. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Truth value
Prefix
Calque
Morpheme
11. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Derivation
Social connotation
Three types of articulations
Bound morphemes
12. A new word
Presupposition
Neologism
Denotation
Derivational morpheme
13. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Signifier
Phonology
Prefix
Transformations
14. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Coded connotations
Phonetics
Flouting
15. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Coded connotations
Homonyms
Truth value
Reflected connotation
16. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Sign
Invention
Adjacency Pair
Categorizations of Speech Acts
17. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Coded connotations
Semantics
Meaning
Ambiguity
18. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Derivational morpheme
Homonyms
Flouting
19. Affix after the root
Sign
Linguistics
Suffix
Four processes by which we produce sound
20. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Maxim of Manner
Coded connotations
Transformations
Prefix
21. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Transformations
Archaism
Idioms
22. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Minimal pair
Individual/Restricted connotation
Negation
23. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Deixis
Transformations
Question
24. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Context
Illocutionary Act
Connotation
25. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Adjacency Pair
Morphology
Coded connotations
26. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Affective connotation
Derivational morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Language planning
27. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Adjacency Pair
Connotation
Linguistics
Synchronic
28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Connotation
Homonyms
Utterance
Intonation
29. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Collocative connotation
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
30. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Phoneme
Infix
Collocative connotation
31. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Recursion
Semantic features
Blends
32. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Connotation
Shibboleth
Particle hopping
Compounding
33. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Implicature
Deictics
Collocative connotation
34. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
Four processes by which we produce sound
Perlocutionary Act
35. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Compounding
Particle hopping
Sign
36. The meaning of a sign
Semantic features
Compounding
Signified
Question
37. An utterance produced by a speaker
Competence
Deictics
Metonymy
Speech Act
38. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Competence
Recursion
Performance
Connotation
39. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Lexicon
Suffix
Ambiguity
Perlocutionary Act
40. A sentence in context
Passive
Deixis
Utterance
Infix
41. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Phoneme
Idioms
Utterance
Cohesion
42. Deals with how sentences are formed
Presupposition
Denotation
Syntax
Meaning
43. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Borrowing
Shibboleth
Synchronic
Adjacency Pair
44. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Coherence
Clipping
Passive
Performance
45. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Language planning
Transformations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of quality
46. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
Pragmatics
Blends
47. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Deictics
Maxim of quality
Maxim of relevance
Phoneme
48. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Minimal pair
Transformations
Free morphemes
Maxim of quality
49. Deals with the sounds of a language
Linguistics
Metonymy
Archaism
Phonetics
50. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Acronyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phonetics
Reflected connotation