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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. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Three types of articulations
Neologism
Compounding
Coded connotations
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Kernel sentence
Derivation
Four components of sounds
3. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Competence
4. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Morphology
Perlocutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
Question
5. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Affective connotation
Three types of articulations
Linguistics
Maxim of Manner
6. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Meaning
Question
Deixis
Neologism
7. Meaning components
Meaning
Reflected connotation
Prefix
Semantic features
8. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Linguistics
Collocative connotation
Deixis
9. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Idioms
Performance
Meaning
Presupposition
10. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Transformations
Lexicon
Flouting
11. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Four processes by which we produce sound
Idioms
Perlocutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
12. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Four processes by which we produce sound
Question
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
13. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Kernel sentence
Collocative connotation
Coherence
Performance
14. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Derivational morpheme
Speech Act
Universal Grammar
Borrowing
15. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Acronyms
Locutionary Act
Diachronic
Implicature
16. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Acronyms
Deixis
Minimal pair
17. The meaning of a sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Signified
Inflectional morpheme
Context
18. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Adjacency Pair
Pragmatics
Ambiguity
Synchronic
19. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Backformation
Question
Metaphor
Four processes by which we produce sound
20. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Deixis
Neologism
Metaphor
21. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Performance
Inflectional morpheme
Ambiguity
22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Language planning
Signifier
Minimal pair
Kernel sentence
23. One who knows many languages
Affective connotation
Polyglot
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prefix
24. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Utterance
Maxim of Manner
Kernel sentence
Shibboleth
25. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Performance
Acronyms
Morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
26. The overall meaning of a text
Passive
Coherence
Sign
Referent
27. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Semantic features
Context
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Perlocutionary Act
28. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Morpheme
Illocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
29. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Performance
Sign
Derivation
Intonation
30. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Semantic features
Cohesion
Homonyms
Phonology
31. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Bound morphemes
Three types of articulations
Presupposition
Pragmatics
32. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Semantics
Passive
Kernel sentence
33. Meaning components
Adjacency Pair
Semantic features
Syntax
Cohesion
34. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Three types of articulations
Context
Acronyms
Language planning
35. One who knows many languages
Free morphemes
Reflected connotation
Polyglot
Maxim of Quantity
36. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Phonology
Affective connotation
Negation
37. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Question
Context
Homonyms
Referent
38. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Metaphor
Negation
Maxim of Manner
Affective connotation
39. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Truth value
Coherence
Four processes by which we produce sound
Referent
40. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Acronyms
Deictics
Ambiguity
Three types of articulations
41. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Semantic features
Shibboleth
Lexicon
Deixis
42. The rise and fall of sentences
Coded connotations
Language planning
Intonation
Idioms
43. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Shibboleth
Maxim of Manner
Metonymy
Archaism
44. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Intonation
Competence
Social connotation
Metonymy
45. A word that has died out
Deixis
Archaism
Utterance
Idioms
46. An utterance produced by a speaker
Adjacency Pair
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
47. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Invention
Infix
Clipping
Morpheme
48. A sentence in context
Implicature
Synchronic
Utterance
Coherence
49. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Utterance
Minimal pair
Sign
50. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Sign
Denotation
Idioms
Connotation