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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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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. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Free morphemes
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
Question
2. The meaning of a sign
Passive
Signified
Ambiguity
Coherence
3. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Passive
Referent
Inference
Free morphemes
4. The meaning derived from flouting
Polyglot
Blends
Prefix
Implicature
5. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Truth value
Universal Grammar
Performance
6. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Acronyms
Four components of sounds
Calque
Synchronic
7. Mental representation of a word
Intonation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Meaning
Bound morphemes
8. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Performance
Idioms
Minimal pair
Four components of sounds
9. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Perlocutionary Act
Diachronic
Metonymy
10. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of Manner
Individual/Restricted connotation
Pragmatics
Maxim of quality
11. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Derivation
Neologism
Metaphor
Passive
12. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Presupposition
Perlocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
Question
13. Affix before the root
Language planning
Competence
Adjacency Pair
Prefix
14. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Presupposition
Invention
Transformations
Affective connotation
15. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Synchronic
Three types of articulations
16. The science that studies language
Maxim of Quantity
Utterance
Semantic features
Linguistics
17. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Semantic features
Prescriptive
Free morphemes
Performance
18. The ability to produce language - what you know
Shibboleth
Competence
Denotation
Semantics
19. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Phonology
Compounding
Polyglot
Performance
20. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Phoneme
Maxim of quality
Archaism
21. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Blends
Signified
22. A sentence in context
Prescriptive
Derivation
Utterance
Morpheme
23. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Illocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Clipping
24. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Question
Blends
Pragmatics
Semantic features
25. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Truth value
Compounding
Coded connotations
Synchronic
26. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Individual/Restricted connotation
Signified
Four components of sounds
Universal Grammar
27. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Intonation
Blends
Locutionary Act
Denotation
28. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Calque
Acronyms
Syntax
29. Deals with the sounds of a language
Prescriptive
Phonetics
Social connotation
Prefix
30. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Minimal pair
Diachronic
Invention
Clipping
31. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Derivation
Borrowing
Utterance
32. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Shibboleth
Passive
Three types of articulations
33. A word that has died out
Archaism
Inference
Maxim of relevance
Presupposition
34. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Individual/Restricted connotation
Speech Act
Sign
Flouting
35. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Clipping
Deixis
Language planning
36. A word that has died out
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Archaism
37. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Idioms
Semantic features
Adjacency Pair
38. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Truth value
Recursion
Illocutionary Act
Sign
39. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Suffix
Affective connotation
Negation
Deictics
40. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Compounding
Deixis
Universal Grammar
Semantic features
41. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Diachronic
Presupposition
Neologism
Bound morphemes
42. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Sign
Flouting
Referent
Prefix
43. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Perlocutionary Act
Idioms
Inflectional morpheme
44. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Phoneme
Calque
Syntax
45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Prefix
Negation
Signifier
Denotation
46. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Inference
Particle hopping
47. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Phonetics
Semantics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
48. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Quantity
Coherence
Flouting
49. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Metaphor
Transformations
Morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
50. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Lexicon
Inference
Phonology
Borrowing