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Linguistics Basics
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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. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Affective connotation
Borrowing
Acronyms
Clipping
2. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
Language planning
Phonology
3. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Inference
Shibboleth
Sign
Denotation
4. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Social connotation
Free morphemes
Maxim of quality
Four processes by which we produce sound
5. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Deixis
Calque
Passive
Categorizations of Speech Acts
6. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Borrowing
Individual/Restricted connotation
Referent
7. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Recursion
Compounding
Dative Movement
Deixis
8. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Shibboleth
Clipping
Referent
9. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Infix
Collocative connotation
Compounding
10. Affix before the root
Prefix
Ambiguity
Maxim of quality
Collocative connotation
11. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Signified
Clipping
Coded connotations
12. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Deixis
Coherence
Morphology
13. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Affective connotation
Compounding
Semantics
Backformation
14. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Compounding
Semantics
Signified
International Phonetic Alphabet
15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Intonation
Free morphemes
Deixis
Dative Movement
16. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Bound morphemes
Clipping
Derivation
Four components of sounds
17. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Dative Movement
Coded connotations
Perlocutionary Act
Free morphemes
18. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Blends
Context
Backformation
Minimal pair
19. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Connotation
Context
Illocutionary Act
Implicature
20. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Signified
Derivational morpheme
Coherence
Coded connotations
21. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Suffix
Signifier
Meaning
22. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Calque
Free morphemes
Semantics
Maxim of relevance
23. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Performance
Kernel sentence
Dative Movement
Maxim of Quantity
24. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Language planning
Phonology
Metaphor
Presupposition
25. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Lexicon
Morpheme
Particle hopping
26. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Kernel sentence
Language planning
Intonation
Idioms
27. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Social connotation
Backformation
Prefix
Recursion
28. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Referent
Infix
Kernel sentence
Homonyms
29. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Phoneme
Maxim of Quantity
Prescriptive
Implicature
30. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Speech Act
Universal Grammar
Blends
Competence
31. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Phonology
Polyglot
Minimal pair
Signifier
32. One who knows many languages
Diachronic
Connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Polyglot
33. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Lexicon
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Universal Grammar
34. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Clipping
Individual/Restricted connotation
Context
Utterance
35. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Collocative connotation
Derivational morpheme
Utterance
Coded connotations
36. A sentence in context
Deictics
Utterance
Kernel sentence
Phonetics
37. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Maxim of Quantity
Ambiguity
Phonology
Sign
38. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Morphology
Kernel sentence
Recursion
Linguistics
39. Affix after the root
Suffix
Inflectional morpheme
Calque
Invention
40. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Inference
Collocative connotation
Acronyms
Maxim of Manner
41. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Speech Act
Bound morphemes
Passive
42. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Maxim of quality
Idioms
Language planning
Prescriptive
43. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
Prescriptive
44. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Archaism
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Coded connotations
45. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Sign
Deixis
Homonyms
Competence
46. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Adjacency Pair
Speech Act
Semantics
47. The meaning derived from flouting
Passive
Morphology
Recursion
Implicature
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Connotation
Morpheme
Affective connotation
49. A sentence in context
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
Derivation
Coherence
50. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Compounding
Question
Language planning
Morpheme