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Linguistics Basics
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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. A word that has died out
Connotation
Semantics
Archaism
Idioms
2. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Metonymy
Lexicon
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Transformations
3. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Pragmatics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Linguistics
4. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Competence
Semantics
Pragmatics
Connotation
5. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Descriptive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Archaism
Illocutionary Act
6. Affix before the root
Presupposition
Flouting
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Prefix
7. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Bound morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
Blends
Prefix
8. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Question
Backformation
Locutionary Act
Intonation
9. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Inference
Free morphemes
Illocutionary Act
Calque
10. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Presupposition
Borrowing
Syntax
Prescriptive
11. Deals with how sentences are formed
Derivation
Syntax
Polyglot
Calque
12. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Meaning
Context
Locutionary Act
Flouting
13. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Coherence
Denotation
Derivational morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
14. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Four processes by which we produce sound
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
15. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Syntax
Polyglot
Archaism
Cohesion
16. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Bound morphemes
Derivation
Illocutionary Act
Speech Act
17. A sentence in context
Utterance
Sign
Particle hopping
Recursion
18. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Sign
Kernel sentence
Collocative connotation
Utterance
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Free morphemes
Maxim of quality
Social connotation
Particle hopping
20. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Phonetics
Metonymy
Four components of sounds
Deixis
21. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Locutionary Act
Morphology
22. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Acronyms
Performance
Clipping
23. The rise and fall of sentences
Phonology
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Intonation
Blends
24. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Social connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Competence
Phoneme
25. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Social connotation
Signifier
International Phonetic Alphabet
26. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Question
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
Deictics
27. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Speech Act
Cohesion
Maxim of Manner
28. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Inflectional morpheme
Diachronic
Backformation
Borrowing
29. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Four components of sounds
Adjacency Pair
Phoneme
Meaning
30. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Collocative connotation
Signifier
Maxim of Quantity
31. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Locutionary Act
Pragmatics
Morpheme
32. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Ambiguity
Individual/Restricted connotation
Calque
Derivational morpheme
33. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Context
Ambiguity
Phoneme
Minimal pair
34. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Prefix
Calque
35. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Context
Utterance
Compounding
36. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Passive
Synchronic
Phonetics
Maxim of quality
37. Affix in the middle of a word
Individual/Restricted connotation
Infix
Derivational morpheme
Performance
38. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Affective connotation
Descriptive
Blends
39. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Three types of articulations
Archaism
Backformation
40. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Reflected connotation
Phonetics
Three types of articulations
41. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Illocutionary Act
Suffix
Diachronic
Denotation
42. The science that studies language
Perlocutionary Act
Compounding
Implicature
Linguistics
43. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Neologism
Polyglot
Language planning
Phoneme
44. The ability to produce language - what you know
Language planning
Competence
Perlocutionary Act
Question
45. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Transformations
Particle hopping
Semantic features
Coherence
46. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Syntax
Context
Acronyms
Maxim of Manner
47. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Implicature
Archaism
Three types of articulations
Competence
48. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Coherence
Perlocutionary Act
Inflectional morpheme
Diachronic
49. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Four processes by which we produce sound
Presupposition
Coded connotations
50. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Collocative connotation
Borrowing
Phoneme