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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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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. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Phonetics
Calque
Infix
2. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Flouting
Meaning
Prescriptive
Calque
3. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Inference
Metaphor
Morphology
Coded connotations
4. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Social connotation
Compounding
Metonymy
Calque
5. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Truth value
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
6. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Referent
Individual/Restricted connotation
Locutionary Act
7. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Descriptive
Calque
Prescriptive
Performance
8. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Backformation
Lexicon
Clipping
Maxim of Quantity
9. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Utterance
Archaism
Phonetics
10. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Morpheme
Coded connotations
Coherence
11. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Inference
Neologism
Borrowing
Presupposition
12. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Prefix
Ambiguity
Maxim of Manner
Signifier
13. A sentence in context
Adjacency Pair
Utterance
Inference
Suffix
14. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Infix
Shibboleth
Utterance
Illocutionary Act
15. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Linguistics
Adjacency Pair
Context
Homonyms
16. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Diachronic
Linguistics
Inflectional morpheme
Denotation
17. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Shibboleth
Suffix
Inference
18. The meaning of a sign
Diachronic
Derivation
Blends
Signified
19. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Reflected connotation
Syntax
Four components of sounds
20. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Free morphemes
Metonymy
Connotation
21. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Phoneme
Affective connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
22. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Shibboleth
Synchronic
Competence
Acronyms
23. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Truth value
Backformation
Locutionary Act
Sign
24. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Archaism
Shibboleth
Truth value
Idioms
25. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Suffix
Deixis
26. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Referent
Three types of articulations
Clipping
Maxim of Manner
27. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Neologism
Negation
Negation
Synchronic
28. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Flouting
Derivation
29. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Flouting
Passive
Four components of sounds
Question
30. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Recursion
Free morphemes
Affective connotation
31. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Universal Grammar
Phonology
Neologism
Performance
32. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Polyglot
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
33. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Suffix
Bound morphemes
Universal Grammar
Language planning
34. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Acronyms
Truth value
Recursion
Semantic features
35. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of quality
Borrowing
Phoneme
36. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Meaning
Polyglot
Competence
Free morphemes
37. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Clipping
Question
Syntax
38. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Deictics
Maxim of Quantity
Passive
Four processes by which we produce sound
39. Affix after the root
Signified
Truth value
Acronyms
Suffix
40. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Linguistics
Phonology
Backformation
Maxim of Manner
41. Meaning components
Semantic features
Perlocutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Flouting
42. Mental representation of a word
Metaphor
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Lexicon
Meaning
43. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Intonation
Blends
Denotation
Semantics
44. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Infix
Deictics
Flouting
Archaism
45. A new word
Lexicon
Collocative connotation
Diachronic
Neologism
46. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Dative Movement
Inflectional morpheme
Invention
47. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phonology
Metonymy
Transformations
48. A word that has died out
Idioms
Deictics
Minimal pair
Archaism
49. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Coherence
Blends
Maxim of Quantity
50. The overall meaning of a text
Kernel sentence
Affective connotation
Coherence
Syntax