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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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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. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four components of sounds
Phonetics
2. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Meaning
Invention
Universal Grammar
Referent
3. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Backformation
Universal Grammar
Passive
Competence
4. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Descriptive
Recursion
Semantic features
Deictics
5. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Illocutionary Act
Presupposition
Affective connotation
6. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Maxim of Quantity
Inflectional morpheme
Morphology
Particle hopping
7. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Manner
Compounding
Language planning
8. Affix before the root
Backformation
Prefix
Deictics
Borrowing
9. Meaning components
Neologism
Passive
Social connotation
Semantic features
10. The ability to produce language - what you know
Syntax
Context
Competence
Bound morphemes
11. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Question
Passive
Negation
Synchronic
12. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Metaphor
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
13. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prefix
14. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Perlocutionary Act
Semantics
Inflectional morpheme
Inference
15. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Pragmatics
Bound morphemes
Denotation
Compounding
16. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Affective connotation
Linguistics
Free morphemes
Individual/Restricted connotation
17. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Semantics
Backformation
Language planning
Blends
18. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Flouting
Transformations
Presupposition
Neologism
19. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Truth value
Morpheme
Cohesion
Sign
20. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Four processes by which we produce sound
Backformation
Semantics
21. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Synchronic
Inference
Derivational morpheme
22. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Inflectional morpheme
Morphology
International Phonetic Alphabet
Recursion
23. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Language planning
Coherence
Maxim of Manner
Truth value
24. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Semantic features
Particle hopping
Homonyms
Question
25. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Adjacency Pair
Phonology
Acronyms
Transformations
26. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Intonation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Competence
Diachronic
27. The science that studies language
Speech Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Polyglot
Linguistics
28. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Inference
Morpheme
Phoneme
Pragmatics
29. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Utterance
Backformation
Suffix
Maxim of relevance
30. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Deictics
Clipping
Connotation
Diachronic
31. Affix in the middle of a word
Minimal pair
Descriptive
Infix
Denotation
32. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Presupposition
Implicature
Illocutionary Act
Particle hopping
33. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Transformations
Minimal pair
Particle hopping
Lexicon
34. The rise and fall of sentences
Individual/Restricted connotation
Performance
Intonation
Signified
35. The overall meaning of a text
Four components of sounds
Maxim of Manner
Coherence
Derivational morpheme
36. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Particle hopping
Phoneme
Backformation
Sign
37. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Perlocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
Flouting
38. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Four components of sounds
Linguistics
Affective connotation
Truth value
39. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Performance
Presupposition
Meaning
Perlocutionary Act
40. Affix before the root
Maxim of quality
Derivation
Collocative connotation
Prefix
41. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Minimal pair
Illocutionary Act
Neologism
Kernel sentence
42. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Calque
Deixis
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
43. Affix after the root
Phonology
Four processes by which we produce sound
Context
Suffix
44. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Perlocutionary Act
Borrowing
Deixis
Calque
45. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Deixis
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Dative Movement
46. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Deixis
Perlocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Coded connotations
Sign
Meaning
Categorizations of Speech Acts
48. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Phoneme
Archaism
Diachronic
49. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Infix
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Illocutionary Act
50. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Prefix
Suffix
Infix