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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. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Transformations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Recursion
Maxim of Quantity
2. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Inference
Denotation
Phonology
Coded connotations
3. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Homonyms
Blends
Three types of articulations
Morpheme
4. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Backformation
Backformation
Transformations
Kernel sentence
5. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Signifier
Free morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
6. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Invention
Connotation
Derivational morpheme
Morphology
7. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Inference
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
Particle hopping
8. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Phonetics
Maxim of Manner
9. The meaning derived from flouting
Polyglot
Implicature
Suffix
Acronyms
10. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Shibboleth
Coded connotations
Descriptive
Ambiguity
11. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Kernel sentence
Derivational morpheme
Metaphor
Homonyms
12. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Manner
Four components of sounds
Archaism
13. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Implicature
Illocutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
14. Affix after the root
Suffix
Connotation
Derivational morpheme
Collocative connotation
15. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Polyglot
Homonyms
Borrowing
Denotation
16. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Signified
Affective connotation
Derivation
Maxim of Manner
17. A sentence in context
Utterance
Illocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Descriptive
18. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Intonation
Synchronic
Metaphor
19. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Lexicon
Borrowing
Deictics
Coded connotations
20. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Context
Four processes by which we produce sound
Synchronic
Signifier
21. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Syntax
Metonymy
Backformation
Shibboleth
22. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Negation
Neologism
Homonyms
Idioms
23. A word that has died out
Derivational morpheme
Synchronic
Archaism
Free morphemes
24. The meaning of a sign
Phonetics
Signified
Reflected connotation
Semantics
25. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Metonymy
Morphology
Dative Movement
Semantics
26. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Shibboleth
Denotation
Reflected connotation
Linguistics
27. The science that studies language
Neologism
Linguistics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Archaism
28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Coded connotations
Phonetics
Homonyms
Semantics
29. Affix before the root
Intonation
Invention
Flouting
Prefix
30. One who knows many languages
Referent
Morpheme
Prefix
Polyglot
31. The overall meaning of a text
Dative Movement
Coherence
Phonology
Locutionary Act
32. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Compounding
Speech Act
Diachronic
33. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Linguistics
Coded connotations
Polyglot
Social connotation
34. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Maxim of Quantity
Referent
Synchronic
Implicature
35. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Inference
Universal Grammar
Maxim of relevance
36. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Utterance
Transformations
Synchronic
Derivation
37. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Backformation
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Lexicon
38. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Meaning
Archaism
Language planning
39. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Deictics
Phonology
Coherence
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Morpheme
Linguistics
Social connotation
Borrowing
41. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Truth value
Sign
Morpheme
42. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Idioms
Acronyms
Context
Perlocutionary Act
43. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Calque
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of quality
Synchronic
44. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Archaism
Prefix
Phonetics
45. Deals with how sentences are formed
Bound morphemes
Idioms
Semantics
Syntax
46. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Semantics
Backformation
Maxim of Quantity
47. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Context
Semantics
Derivational morpheme
Affective connotation
48. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Question
Prescriptive
Clipping
Speech Act
49. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coherence
Coded connotations
Pragmatics
Shibboleth
50. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Inference
Acronyms
Four components of sounds