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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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1. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Inflectional morpheme
Linguistics
Morphology
Prescriptive
2. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Diachronic
Metaphor
Recursion
Perlocutionary Act
3. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Signifier
Maxim of quality
Borrowing
Perlocutionary Act
4. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Three types of articulations
Reflected connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Lexicon
5. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Descriptive
Affective connotation
Recursion
6. The science that studies language
Recursion
Signifier
Linguistics
Homonyms
7. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Semantic features
Homonyms
Maxim of quality
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Morpheme
Inference
Collocative connotation
Implicature
9. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Intonation
Referent
Blends
10. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Affective connotation
Phoneme
Lexicon
International Phonetic Alphabet
11. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Truth value
Calque
Deictics
Diachronic
12. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Three types of articulations
Diachronic
Descriptive
Morphology
13. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Presupposition
Universal Grammar
Context
Connotation
14. The overall meaning of a text
Negation
Borrowing
Coded connotations
Coherence
15. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Universal Grammar
Truth value
Metaphor
16. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Phonetics
Descriptive
Phoneme
17. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Pragmatics
Connotation
Locutionary Act
Deixis
18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Four processes by which we produce sound
Synchronic
Idioms
19. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Connotation
Signified
Prefix
20. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Passive
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Minimal pair
21. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Flouting
Context
Polyglot
Calque
22. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Referent
Idioms
Descriptive
Phonology
23. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Four processes by which we produce sound
Illocutionary Act
Context
24. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Context
Four processes by which we produce sound
Acronyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
25. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Coherence
Connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Borrowing
26. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Morphology
Three types of articulations
Pragmatics
Deictics
27. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Dative Movement
Kernel sentence
Adjacency Pair
Coded connotations
28. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Negation
Acronyms
Shibboleth
Adjacency Pair
29. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Derivational morpheme
Morpheme
Bound morphemes
Acronyms
30. Affix before the root
Flouting
Prefix
Passive
Four processes by which we produce sound
31. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Cohesion
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Intonation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
32. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Coherence
Syntax
Maxim of Quantity
33. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Meaning
Phonology
Social connotation
Speech Act
34. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Suffix
Homonyms
Passive
Morpheme
35. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Clipping
Transformations
Maxim of Quantity
36. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Three types of articulations
Polyglot
Minimal pair
Blends
37. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Truth value
Semantic features
Referent
38. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Four processes by which we produce sound
Idioms
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
39. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Maxim of Quantity
Phoneme
Minimal pair
40. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Maxim of Manner
Question
Presupposition
Reflected connotation
41. The ability to produce language - what you know
Infix
Suffix
Maxim of relevance
Competence
42. A sentence in context
Intonation
Recursion
Utterance
Maxim of relevance
43. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Referent
Backformation
Inference
Speech Act
44. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Coded connotations
Lexicon
Morphology
45. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Maxim of Manner
Free morphemes
Passive
Flouting
46. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Semantic features
Performance
Phonology
Phoneme
47. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Phonetics
Bound morphemes
Phoneme
48. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Coded connotations
Meaning
Dative Movement
Clipping
49. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Neologism
Backformation
Language planning
Individual/Restricted connotation
50. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Neologism
Phoneme