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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Diachronic
Deictics
Presupposition
Passive
2. Deals with the sounds of a language
Flouting
Diachronic
Phonetics
Neologism
3. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Four components of sounds
Signified
Utterance
Collocative connotation
4. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Three types of articulations
Phoneme
Lexicon
Collocative connotation
5. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metonymy
Inference
6. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Recursion
Speech Act
Particle hopping
Locutionary Act
7. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Implicature
Negation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of quality
8. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Four processes by which we produce sound
Particle hopping
Deixis
Meaning
9. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Compounding
Deixis
Neologism
Collocative connotation
10. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Presupposition
Locutionary Act
Metaphor
Minimal pair
11. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Quantity
Sign
Syntax
12. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Four processes by which we produce sound
Truth value
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of quality
13. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Signified
Dative Movement
Performance
Suffix
14. Mental representation of a word
Borrowing
Phoneme
Meaning
Lexicon
15. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Three types of articulations
Context
Idioms
16. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Dative Movement
Language planning
Perlocutionary Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
17. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Phonetics
Truth value
Three types of articulations
18. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Acronyms
Descriptive
Denotation
19. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Utterance
Backformation
Sign
Implicature
20. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Affective connotation
Invention
Prescriptive
Four components of sounds
21. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Language planning
Coded connotations
Phonology
Compounding
22. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Minimal pair
Borrowing
Coherence
Inflectional morpheme
23. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Three types of articulations
Synchronic
Prefix
Clipping
24. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Cohesion
Semantics
Transformations
Illocutionary Act
25. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Morpheme
Flouting
Minimal pair
Adjacency Pair
26. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Maxim of Quantity
Syntax
Kernel sentence
Lexicon
27. Deals with how sentences are formed
Affective connotation
Utterance
Syntax
Homonyms
28. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Referent
Locutionary Act
Deixis
29. A sentence in context
Denotation
Utterance
Cohesion
Derivation
30. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Maxim of relevance
Linguistics
Four processes by which we produce sound
31. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantic features
Borrowing
Truth value
Semantics
32. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Derivation
Syntax
Connotation
33. One who knows many languages
Intonation
Polyglot
Prefix
Locutionary Act
34. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Metonymy
Ambiguity
Maxim of relevance
Performance
35. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Prescriptive
Metonymy
Diachronic
36. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Presupposition
Acronyms
Coded connotations
Denotation
37. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Diachronic
Social connotation
Derivation
38. Deals with the sounds of a language
Prescriptive
Phonetics
Bound morphemes
Phonology
39. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Syntax
Utterance
Borrowing
Maxim of quality
40. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Individual/Restricted connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Signifier
Transformations
41. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Collocative connotation
Linguistics
Compounding
Inference
42. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Transformations
Coded connotations
Diachronic
44. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Free morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Diachronic
45. The meaning derived from flouting
Bound morphemes
Passive
Implicature
Homonyms
46. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Four components of sounds
Free morphemes
Deictics
Homonyms
47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Diachronic
Linguistics
Shibboleth
Referent
48. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
Reflected connotation
Backformation
49. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Collocative connotation
Clipping
Morphology
Maxim of Quantity
50. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Infix
Dative Movement
Question
Reflected connotation