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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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1. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Neologism
Shibboleth
Deixis
Connotation
2. A sentence in context
Utterance
Blends
Acronyms
Competence
3. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Speech Act
Kernel sentence
Minimal pair
Question
4. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Archaism
Borrowing
Maxim of Quantity
Illocutionary Act
5. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Morphology
Archaism
Minimal pair
6. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Particle hopping
Calque
Maxim of Quantity
Ambiguity
7. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Affective connotation
Utterance
Lexicon
8. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Referent
Diachronic
Calque
Maxim of Quantity
9. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Question
Speech Act
Lexicon
Recursion
10. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Diachronic
Blends
Acronyms
11. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Deixis
Individual/Restricted connotation
Invention
Pragmatics
12. Mental representation of a word
Suffix
Backformation
Context
Meaning
13. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Infix
Suffix
Denotation
Derivation
14. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Meaning
Inference
Semantic features
Language planning
15. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Presupposition
Archaism
Phonology
Four components of sounds
16. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Performance
Illocutionary Act
Intonation
Blends
17. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Neologism
Signified
Acronyms
18. Meaning components
Inference
Ambiguity
Borrowing
Semantic features
19. The ability to produce language - what you know
Bound morphemes
Competence
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
20. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Performance
Semantics
Question
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Adjacency Pair
Compounding
Idioms
Collocative connotation
22. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Recursion
Speech Act
23. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Invention
Pragmatics
Morpheme
Calque
24. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Competence
Shibboleth
Ambiguity
25. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Coded connotations
Truth value
Infix
Semantics
26. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Descriptive
Recursion
Pragmatics
27. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Four components of sounds
Phoneme
Maxim of Quantity
Syntax
28. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Locutionary Act
Language planning
Meaning
Kernel sentence
29. Affix in the middle of a word
Presupposition
Infix
Syntax
Clipping
30. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Phonology
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Inflectional morpheme
31. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Presupposition
Diachronic
Synchronic
Maxim of quality
32. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Recursion
Intonation
Metonymy
33. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Locutionary Act
Meaning
Borrowing
Reflected connotation
34. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Minimal pair
Deictics
Coded connotations
Phoneme
35. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Negation
Acronyms
Diachronic
Maxim of Quantity
36. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Inflectional morpheme
Semantics
Clipping
Coherence
37. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Synchronic
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Backformation
38. The rise and fall of sentences
International Phonetic Alphabet
Infix
Intonation
Dative Movement
39. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Signifier
Invention
Passive
Coherence
40. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Metaphor
Sign
Coded connotations
41. The meaning of a sign
Morphology
Signified
Intonation
Polyglot
42. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Acronyms
Social connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Synchronic
43. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Passive
Clipping
Deictics
Competence
44. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Morpheme
Metonymy
Cohesion
Syntax
45. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Pragmatics
Social connotation
Kernel sentence
Prefix
46. An utterance produced by a speaker
Cohesion
Speech Act
Sign
Deixis
47. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Borrowing
Metaphor
Three types of articulations
Inference
48. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Individual/Restricted connotation
Question
Prefix
49. Affix after the root
Phoneme
Archaism
Inflectional morpheme
Suffix
50. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Denotation
Prescriptive
Bound morphemes
Individual/Restricted connotation