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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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1. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Intonation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Presupposition
Categorizations of Speech Acts
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Neologism
Phoneme
Homonyms
Four components of sounds
3. The meaning of a sign
Three types of articulations
Acronyms
Signified
Individual/Restricted connotation
4. The ability to produce language - what you know
Implicature
Coded connotations
Implicature
Competence
5. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Neologism
Context
Archaism
Shibboleth
6. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Maxim of relevance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Sign
Phoneme
7. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Denotation
Compounding
Idioms
8. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Inflectional morpheme
Metonymy
Performance
9. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Neologism
Free morphemes
Locutionary Act
10. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Suffix
Connotation
Three types of articulations
Idioms
11. Meaning components
Truth value
Free morphemes
Semantic features
Syntax
12. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Semantics
Lexicon
Backformation
Signifier
13. Affix before the root
Archaism
Locutionary Act
Prefix
Signifier
14. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Particle hopping
Implicature
Illocutionary Act
Bound morphemes
15. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Maxim of Manner
Speech Act
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
16. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Maxim of Manner
Meaning
Inference
17. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Maxim of quality
Morphology
Maxim of Quantity
Diachronic
18. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Archaism
Adjacency Pair
Locutionary Act
Social connotation
19. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Flouting
Semantic features
Cohesion
Reflected connotation
20. A sentence in context
Utterance
Pragmatics
Free morphemes
Deictics
21. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Kernel sentence
Signified
Adjacency Pair
Particle hopping
22. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Affective connotation
Minimal pair
Invention
Calque
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Illocutionary Act
Truth value
Performance
Individual/Restricted connotation
24. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Dative Movement
Morpheme
Pragmatics
Recursion
25. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Adjacency Pair
Clipping
Negation
Phonology
26. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Polyglot
Phonology
Derivation
Four processes by which we produce sound
27. An utterance produced by a speaker
Truth value
Inflectional morpheme
Speech Act
Inference
28. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Synchronic
Signifier
Context
Adjacency Pair
29. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Inflectional morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Inference
30. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Phoneme
Inference
Maxim of Quantity
Individual/Restricted connotation
31. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Clipping
Signified
Pragmatics
Polyglot
32. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Three types of articulations
Perlocutionary Act
Flouting
Recursion
33. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Syntax
Polyglot
Diachronic
34. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Performance
Implicature
Coded connotations
35. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Derivation
Semantics
Minimal pair
Shibboleth
36. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Diachronic
Bound morphemes
Idioms
Performance
37. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Language planning
Phoneme
Four processes by which we produce sound
38. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Competence
Borrowing
Phoneme
Individual/Restricted connotation
39. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Homonyms
Minimal pair
Metaphor
Implicature
40. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Connotation
Deixis
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prescriptive
41. Deals with the sounds of a language
Morphology
Phonetics
Utterance
Semantic features
42. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Semantic features
Pragmatics
Social connotation
Affective connotation
43. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Free morphemes
Inference
Signifier
Dative Movement
44. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Referent
Compounding
Context
45. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Archaism
Morphology
Morpheme
Deixis
46. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Universal Grammar
Phonetics
Semantics
Shibboleth
47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Denotation
Question
Backformation
Shibboleth
48. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Question
Metonymy
Invention
Categorizations of Speech Acts
49. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Collocative connotation
Diachronic
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Derivation
50. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Universal Grammar
Competence
Utterance