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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Homonyms
Four components of sounds
Sign
Collocative connotation
2. The meaning derived from flouting
Prefix
Homonyms
Implicature
Minimal pair
3. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Utterance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Phonology
4. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Universal Grammar
5. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of quality
Suffix
6. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Truth value
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Particle hopping
7. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Deictics
Morphology
8. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Pragmatics
Compounding
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Adjacency Pair
9. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Coded connotations
Implicature
Coherence
Passive
10. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Prefix
Invention
Linguistics
Cohesion
11. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
Minimal pair
Illocutionary Act
12. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Compounding
Referent
Signifier
Recursion
13. The science that studies language
Sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Presupposition
Linguistics
14. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Suffix
Particle hopping
Derivational morpheme
Free morphemes
15. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Phonology
Cohesion
Ambiguity
16. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Infix
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metaphor
Perlocutionary Act
17. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Referent
Maxim of quality
Prefix
18. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Kernel sentence
Universal Grammar
Collocative connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
19. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Individual/Restricted connotation
Denotation
Morphology
Coded connotations
20. Deals with the sounds of a language
Reflected connotation
Presupposition
Phonetics
Locutionary Act
21. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Truth value
Illocutionary Act
Linguistics
22. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Borrowing
Illocutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Cohesion
23. The ability to produce language - what you know
Language planning
Competence
Deictics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
24. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Utterance
Free morphemes
Infix
25. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Maxim of relevance
Homonyms
Maxim of Manner
International Phonetic Alphabet
26. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Minimal pair
Question
Illocutionary Act
27. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Reflected connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Phonetics
Connotation
28. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Competence
Universal Grammar
Flouting
Maxim of relevance
29. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Connotation
Competence
Derivational morpheme
30. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Reflected connotation
Homonyms
Inference
Affective connotation
31. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Archaism
Derivation
Derivational morpheme
Blends
32. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Transformations
Illocutionary Act
Deixis
Metaphor
33. Affix after the root
Suffix
Maxim of quality
International Phonetic Alphabet
Acronyms
34. Meaning components
Affective connotation
Collocative connotation
Three types of articulations
Semantic features
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Perlocutionary Act
Backformation
36. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Recursion
Invention
Sign
Connotation
37. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Bound morphemes
Polyglot
Meaning
Categorizations of Speech Acts
38. Deals with how sentences are formed
Neologism
Collocative connotation
Compounding
Syntax
39. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Descriptive
Morpheme
Coherence
40. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Borrowing
Speech Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
41. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Particle hopping
Collocative connotation
Compounding
42. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Utterance
Descriptive
Denotation
43. The ability to produce language - what you know
Adjacency Pair
Negation
Morphology
Competence
44. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Lexicon
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
Morpheme
45. The meaning of a sign
Derivational morpheme
Signified
Suffix
Diachronic
46. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Invention
Kernel sentence
Compounding
Locutionary Act
47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Four components of sounds
Negation
48. Affix before the root
Metonymy
Referent
Prefix
Reflected connotation
49. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Presupposition
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
Ambiguity
50. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Idioms
Compounding
Truth value
Kernel sentence