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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Signified
Blends
Question
2. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Meaning
Denotation
Question
3. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of quality
Maxim of relevance
Metonymy
Question
4. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Truth value
Flouting
Kernel sentence
Transformations
5. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Morphology
Reflected connotation
Infix
Synchronic
6. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Question
Three types of articulations
Acronyms
7. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Passive
Phonology
Infix
8. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Connotation
Signified
Context
Ambiguity
9. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Diachronic
Backformation
Homonyms
International Phonetic Alphabet
10. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Blends
Metonymy
Coded connotations
Universal Grammar
11. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Collocative connotation
Phonology
12. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Negation
Homonyms
Prescriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
13. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Morpheme
Four processes by which we produce sound
Suffix
Inference
14. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Illocutionary Act
Collocative connotation
15. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Dative Movement
Presupposition
Denotation
Flouting
16. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Truth value
Flouting
Coherence
17. Affix after the root
Minimal pair
Phonetics
Suffix
Prescriptive
18. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Kernel sentence
Transformations
Affective connotation
Universal Grammar
19. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Three types of articulations
Truth value
Phonology
Negation
20. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Coherence
Universal Grammar
International Phonetic Alphabet
Connotation
21. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Illocutionary Act
Implicature
Adjacency Pair
Inference
22. Mental representation of a word
Language planning
Phoneme
Meaning
Minimal pair
23. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quality
Negation
24. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Connotation
Social connotation
Recursion
Four components of sounds
25. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Semantics
Reflected connotation
Utterance
Maxim of Manner
26. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Ambiguity
Polyglot
27. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Prescriptive
Clipping
Backformation
Reflected connotation
28. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivation
Descriptive
Bound morphemes
29. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Invention
Lexicon
Infix
30. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Derivation
Intonation
Lexicon
Maxim of Manner
31. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Bound morphemes
Metaphor
Blends
Cohesion
32. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Morpheme
Signifier
Minimal pair
Social connotation
33. A sentence in context
Compounding
Syntax
Utterance
Linguistics
34. The meaning derived from flouting
Signifier
Recursion
Kernel sentence
Implicature
35. Affix after the root
Descriptive
Idioms
Illocutionary Act
Suffix
36. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Derivation
Invention
Blends
Universal Grammar
37. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Collocative connotation
Context
Transformations
Intonation
38. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Particle hopping
Flouting
Borrowing
Clipping
39. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Denotation
Four components of sounds
40. An utterance produced by a speaker
Coded connotations
Speech Act
Particle hopping
Prefix
41. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Acronyms
Recursion
Free morphemes
Illocutionary Act
42. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Locutionary Act
Clipping
Derivation
43. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Semantic features
Linguistics
Maxim of Manner
Utterance
44. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Kernel sentence
Inference
Clipping
45. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Suffix
Implicature
Connotation
Blends
46. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Recursion
International Phonetic Alphabet
Pragmatics
Derivational morpheme
47. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Shibboleth
Intonation
Deixis
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Synchronic
Affective connotation
Social connotation
Morphology
49. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Implicature
Sign
Metaphor
Signified
50. A word that has died out
Linguistics
Archaism
Competence
Prescriptive