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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Morpheme
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
2. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Compounding
Invention
Phonetics
3. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Performance
Passive
Shibboleth
4. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Recursion
Denotation
Social connotation
Sign
5. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Semantic features
Neologism
6. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Morphology
Passive
Phonetics
Metaphor
7. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Infix
Free morphemes
Semantic features
Calque
8. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Phonetics
Inference
Homonyms
Maxim of Manner
9. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Linguistics
Coherence
Compounding
10. Deals with how sentences are formed
Lexicon
Semantics
Syntax
Neologism
11. A new word
Neologism
Implicature
Inference
Derivational morpheme
12. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Locutionary Act
Three types of articulations
Semantic features
13. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Ambiguity
Passive
Shibboleth
14. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Deixis
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Metonymy
15. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Blends
Diachronic
Perlocutionary Act
Derivation
16. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Implicature
Compounding
Illocutionary Act
Phoneme
17. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Dative Movement
Implicature
Competence
Metonymy
18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Recursion
Clipping
Calque
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
19. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Four components of sounds
Perlocutionary Act
Universal Grammar
Idioms
20. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Shibboleth
Metonymy
Morpheme
Intonation
21. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Coded connotations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Acronyms
22. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Three types of articulations
Lexicon
Neologism
23. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Maxim of relevance
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
Phonetics
24. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Prefix
Affective connotation
Negation
25. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Reflected connotation
Pragmatics
Cohesion
Homonyms
26. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Truth value
Diachronic
Homonyms
Infix
27. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Polyglot
Shibboleth
Locutionary Act
28. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Referent
Context
Dative Movement
Syntax
29. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Perlocutionary Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
30. Affix in the middle of a word
Derivational morpheme
Flouting
Individual/Restricted connotation
Infix
31. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Free morphemes
Social connotation
Flouting
Synchronic
32. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Compounding
Phoneme
Speech Act
33. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Deixis
Phonology
Collocative connotation
34. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Diachronic
Inflectional morpheme
Phoneme
Compounding
35. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Minimal pair
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
36. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of relevance
Polyglot
Prefix
Maxim of Manner
37. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
Illocutionary Act
Idioms
Collocative connotation
38. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Inflectional morpheme
Context
Passive
Deixis
39. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Neologism
Competence
Maxim of Manner
Inference
40. The meaning of a sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Signified
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
41. Mental representation of a word
Homonyms
Descriptive
Diachronic
Meaning
42. The ability to produce language - what you know
Four processes by which we produce sound
Three types of articulations
Inference
Competence
43. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Maxim of Manner
Coherence
Context
Shibboleth
44. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Adjacency Pair
Cohesion
Referent
45. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Four components of sounds
Signifier
Acronyms
Free morphemes
46. Affix after the root
Suffix
Backformation
Implicature
Ambiguity
47. Affix before the root
Phonetics
Prefix
Three types of articulations
Derivation
48. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Affective connotation
Neologism
Negation
49. A sentence in context
Speech Act
Negation
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
50. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Derivation
Context
Perlocutionary Act
Semantic features