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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Affix in the middle of a word
Linguistics
Four components of sounds
Infix
Bound morphemes
2. Meaning components
Universal Grammar
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Semantic features
3. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Dative Movement
Borrowing
Phoneme
Flouting
4. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Denotation
Bound morphemes
Metaphor
5. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of Manner
Illocutionary Act
6. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Lexicon
International Phonetic Alphabet
Language planning
Locutionary Act
7. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Phonetics
Particle hopping
Descriptive
Maxim of Manner
8. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Sign
Neologism
Locutionary Act
Question
9. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Synchronic
Sign
Context
Descriptive
10. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Calque
Backformation
Descriptive
11. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Archaism
Metonymy
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metaphor
12. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Prescriptive
Cohesion
Blends
Truth value
13. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Deictics
Individual/Restricted connotation
Cohesion
14. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Adjacency Pair
Phonology
Deictics
15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Diachronic
Clipping
Metonymy
16. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Backformation
Invention
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four components of sounds
17. A new word
Neologism
Phoneme
Inference
Invention
18. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Morpheme
Prescriptive
Truth value
Cohesion
19. Deals with the sounds of a language
International Phonetic Alphabet
Semantics
Kernel sentence
Phonetics
20. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Maxim of Manner
Suffix
Social connotation
21. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
Individual/Restricted connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Minimal pair
22. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Signified
Intonation
Recursion
Metaphor
23. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Invention
Negation
Performance
Phonology
24. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Meaning
Utterance
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Shibboleth
25. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Morphology
Acronyms
Acronyms
Transformations
26. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Transformations
Collocative connotation
Passive
Context
27. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Four processes by which we produce sound
Phonology
Signified
Idioms
28. The meaning of a sign
Inflectional morpheme
Signified
Ambiguity
Lexicon
29. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Signified
Connotation
Semantic features
30. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Calque
Inflectional morpheme
Pragmatics
31. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Lexicon
Clipping
Adjacency Pair
Metaphor
32. Deals with how sentences are formed
Linguistics
Acronyms
Backformation
Syntax
33. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Derivational morpheme
Denotation
Inference
Synchronic
34. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Flouting
Denotation
Deictics
Maxim of relevance
35. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Truth value
Pragmatics
Derivational morpheme
Free morphemes
36. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Truth value
Denotation
Bound morphemes
37. An utterance produced by a speaker
Morpheme
Speech Act
Shibboleth
Idioms
38. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Calque
39. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Three types of articulations
Connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Transformations
40. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Inference
Connotation
Synchronic
Ambiguity
41. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Passive
Idioms
Maxim of quality
42. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Pragmatics
Inference
Syntax
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Presupposition
Infix
Individual/Restricted connotation
Affective connotation
44. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Transformations
Synchronic
Diachronic
Performance
45. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Reflected connotation
Recursion
Backformation
46. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Collocative connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Intonation
Backformation
47. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Linguistics
Language planning
Prescriptive
Four components of sounds
48. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Prefix
Coded connotations
Flouting
Collocative connotation
49. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Denotation
Competence
Sign
Collocative connotation
50. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Semantic features
Maxim of Quantity
Kernel sentence
Four components of sounds