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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. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Negation
Ambiguity
Derivation
Coherence
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Archaism
Kernel sentence
Minimal pair
3. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Semantics
Passive
Phoneme
Backformation
4. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonology
Syntax
Deictics
5. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Blends
Derivational morpheme
Backformation
6. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Particle hopping
Suffix
Inflectional morpheme
7. The meaning derived from flouting
Question
Phonetics
Flouting
Implicature
8. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Infix
Meaning
Derivational morpheme
Presupposition
9. Deals with the sounds of a language
Idioms
Intonation
Linguistics
Phonetics
10. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Utterance
Blends
Question
Deixis
11. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Phonology
Ambiguity
Negation
Intonation
12. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Maxim of relevance
Adjacency Pair
Lexicon
Morpheme
13. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Context
Sign
Truth value
Backformation
14. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Signifier
Referent
Diachronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
15. An utterance produced by a speaker
Presupposition
Homonyms
Speech Act
Compounding
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Kernel sentence
Language planning
Invention
Descriptive
17. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Descriptive
Polyglot
Syntax
Question
18. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Signifier
Dative Movement
Free morphemes
Descriptive
19. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Three types of articulations
Blends
Negation
Suffix
20. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Derivational morpheme
Particle hopping
Social connotation
Homonyms
21. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Meaning
Cohesion
International Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet
22. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Recursion
Derivational morpheme
Invention
Deixis
23. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Coherence
Language planning
Particle hopping
Transformations
24. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Cohesion
Denotation
Polyglot
25. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Semantics
Passive
Suffix
Sign
26. A sentence in context
Maxim of Manner
Utterance
Phoneme
Coded connotations
27. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Four components of sounds
Collocative connotation
Performance
Semantics
28. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Clipping
Question
Implicature
Ambiguity
29. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Descriptive
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phonetics
30. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Denotation
Free morphemes
Coded connotations
International Phonetic Alphabet
31. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Idioms
Metonymy
Synchronic
Phoneme
32. The meaning derived from flouting
Social connotation
Implicature
Dative Movement
Recursion
33. A word that has died out
Calque
Archaism
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Performance
34. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Derivational morpheme
Derivation
Syntax
Categorizations of Speech Acts
35. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Maxim of Quantity
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
36. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Speech Act
Four components of sounds
Question
Cohesion
37. A new word
Signifier
Individual/Restricted connotation
Negation
Neologism
38. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Blends
Invention
Perlocutionary Act
39. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Suffix
Semantics
Connotation
Denotation
40. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Neologism
Homonyms
Bound morphemes
Competence
41. Affix in the middle of a word
Morphology
Infix
Bound morphemes
Ambiguity
42. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Shibboleth
Pragmatics
Four processes by which we produce sound
43. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
Deictics
44. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Clipping
Locutionary Act
Semantics
45. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Minimal pair
Invention
Passive
Homonyms
46. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Pragmatics
Utterance
Suffix
47. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Language planning
Maxim of Quantity
Phonology
Metonymy
48. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Signifier
Implicature
Blends
Performance
49. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Ambiguity
Four components of sounds
Ambiguity
Clipping
50. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Acronyms
Inference
Compounding
Context