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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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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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. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Passive
Context
Performance
Infix
2. A word that has died out
Morphology
Flouting
Maxim of Manner
Archaism
3. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Acronyms
Inflectional morpheme
Sign
Syntax
4. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Universal Grammar
Phonetics
Compounding
Metaphor
5. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Maxim of quality
Locutionary Act
Synchronic
6. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Deictics
Acronyms
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of relevance
7. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Three types of articulations
Affective connotation
Acronyms
Neologism
8. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Adjacency Pair
Context
Free morphemes
Maxim of Manner
9. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
Meaning
Signifier
10. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Truth value
Context
Pragmatics
11. A sentence in context
Backformation
Utterance
Speech Act
Denotation
12. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Syntax
Connotation
Metaphor
Signifier
13. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Linguistics
Sign
Speech Act
Prescriptive
14. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Prefix
Flouting
Signifier
Bound morphemes
15. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Phonology
Lexicon
Dative Movement
16. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Language planning
Flouting
Collocative connotation
Semantics
17. Affix after the root
Prefix
Particle hopping
Coded connotations
Suffix
18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Utterance
Calque
Acronyms
Semantics
19. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Deictics
Three types of articulations
International Phonetic Alphabet
20. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Homonyms
Syntax
Speech Act
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Recursion
Deictics
Diachronic
Collocative connotation
22. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Illocutionary Act
Metaphor
Acronyms
23. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Deictics
Archaism
Particle hopping
24. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Acronyms
Shibboleth
Minimal pair
Truth value
25. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Prescriptive
Compounding
Passive
Calque
26. A new word
Infix
Neologism
Ambiguity
Descriptive
27. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Minimal pair
Homonyms
Derivational morpheme
28. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Perlocutionary Act
Archaism
Metonymy
29. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Ambiguity
Prescriptive
30. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Clipping
Individual/Restricted connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Neologism
31. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Deixis
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of quality
32. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Dative Movement
Universal Grammar
Clipping
Invention
33. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Linguistics
Coded connotations
Free morphemes
34. The science that studies language
Particle hopping
Four components of sounds
Linguistics
Syntax
35. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Semantics
Diachronic
Language planning
36. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Linguistics
Passive
Blends
37. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Maxim of relevance
Negation
Social connotation
Signified
38. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Acronyms
Maxim of quality
Prefix
39. A word that has died out
Prescriptive
Truth value
Neologism
Archaism
40. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Sign
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
Connotation
41. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Universal Grammar
Deixis
Minimal pair
Affective connotation
42. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Utterance
Signifier
Universal Grammar
43. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Suffix
Particle hopping
Four processes by which we produce sound
Implicature
44. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Idioms
Dative Movement
Idioms
45. Affix in the middle of a word
Neologism
Competence
Blends
Infix
46. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Collocative connotation
Deictics
Utterance
Signified
47. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Synchronic
Competence
Pragmatics
48. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Connotation
Implicature
Recursion
Maxim of quality
49. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Individual/Restricted connotation
Illocutionary Act
Lexicon
Question
50. Deals with the sounds of a language
Neologism
Phonetics
Particle hopping
Maxim of Quantity