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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. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Competence
Backformation
Invention
2. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Minimal pair
Coded connotations
Borrowing
Denotation
3. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Question
Kernel sentence
Phonology
4. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Deixis
Prefix
Phoneme
Affective connotation
5. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Homonyms
Deixis
Categorizations of Speech Acts
6. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Negation
Meaning
Four processes by which we produce sound
7. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Reflected connotation
Semantics
Maxim of Manner
Cohesion
8. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Affective connotation
Prescriptive
Perlocutionary Act
Social connotation
9. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Perlocutionary Act
Competence
Clipping
Affective connotation
10. The rise and fall of sentences
Invention
Illocutionary Act
Bound morphemes
Intonation
11. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Suffix
Descriptive
12. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Metonymy
Reflected connotation
Particle hopping
13. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Affective connotation
Utterance
Phonetics
Universal Grammar
14. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Pragmatics
Lexicon
Invention
Affective connotation
15. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Implicature
Neologism
Adjacency Pair
16. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Context
Suffix
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
17. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Backformation
Maxim of relevance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Diachronic
18. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Meaning
Deixis
Transformations
19. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Free morphemes
Synchronic
Cohesion
Performance
20. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Idioms
Collocative connotation
Inference
Pragmatics
21. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Pragmatics
Connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of Manner
22. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Maxim of Quantity
Prefix
Reflected connotation
23. The overall meaning of a text
Meaning
Coherence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Adjacency Pair
24. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Invention
Maxim of Manner
Neologism
25. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Morphology
Diachronic
26. Deals with how sentences are formed
Diachronic
Syntax
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Implicature
27. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Coded connotations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Kernel sentence
Suffix
28. The meaning derived from flouting
Sign
Maxim of relevance
Recursion
Implicature
29. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Adjacency Pair
Phonology
Morphology
Calque
30. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Negation
Competence
Metonymy
Coded connotations
31. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Intonation
Question
Archaism
32. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Clipping
Implicature
Neologism
33. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Kernel sentence
Phoneme
Denotation
34. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Backformation
Clipping
Synchronic
Deictics
35. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Denotation
Suffix
Deixis
36. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Adjacency Pair
Metaphor
Meaning
Truth value
37. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Speech Act
Context
Coherence
Social connotation
38. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Synchronic
Phoneme
Referent
Minimal pair
39. A sentence in context
Four components of sounds
Locutionary Act
Competence
Utterance
40. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Sign
Semantic features
Linguistics
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Semantic features
Performance
Collocative connotation
Phonology
42. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Deictics
Blends
Kernel sentence
Semantics
43. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Invention
44. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Four components of sounds
Utterance
Connotation
45. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Metaphor
Competence
Intonation
Homonyms
46. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Four components of sounds
Suffix
Prescriptive
47. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Polyglot
Neologism
Semantic features
Performance
48. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Free morphemes
International Phonetic Alphabet
Idioms
Lexicon
49. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Deixis
Shibboleth
Morpheme
50. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Descriptive
Context
Recursion