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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
Instructions:
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)
Kernel sentence
Derivation
Truth value
Ambiguity
2. Affix before the root
Derivation
Minimal pair
Coherence
Prefix
3. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Backformation
Presupposition
Referent
Collocative connotation
4. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Transformations
Context
Flouting
Morpheme
5. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Speech Act
Semantic features
Calque
Linguistics
6. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Free morphemes
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coherence
Maxim of Manner
7. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Clipping
Inflectional morpheme
Universal Grammar
Metaphor
8. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Cohesion
Ambiguity
Infix
Locutionary Act
9. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Lexicon
Meaning
Prefix
Acronyms
10. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Locutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
Individual/Restricted connotation
Derivation
11. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Invention
Derivational morpheme
Archaism
Ambiguity
12. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Compounding
Pragmatics
Language planning
Prescriptive
13. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Meaning
Diachronic
Metaphor
14. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Maxim of quality
Truth value
Acronyms
15. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Metonymy
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
Coherence
16. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Speech Act
Question
Transformations
Cohesion
17. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Cohesion
International Phonetic Alphabet
Minimal pair
Metonymy
18. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Three types of articulations
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
19. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Dative Movement
Adjacency Pair
Signifier
Prescriptive
20. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Context
Blends
Passive
Shibboleth
21. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Acronyms
Linguistics
Competence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
22. A new word
Inference
Free morphemes
Neologism
Referent
23. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Metaphor
Pragmatics
Metonymy
Bound morphemes
24. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Syntax
Connotation
Semantics
Prescriptive
25. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Collocative connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Clipping
Descriptive
26. A sentence in context
Ambiguity
Backformation
Utterance
Shibboleth
27. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Meaning
Phoneme
Diachronic
28. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Compounding
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
29. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Recursion
Invention
Signified
Context
30. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Inflectional morpheme
Connotation
Descriptive
Social connotation
31. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Infix
Blends
Coded connotations
Phonology
32. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Language planning
Question
Clipping
Performance
33. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Utterance
Maxim of quality
Idioms
Question
34. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Morphology
Adjacency Pair
Archaism
Referent
35. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Archaism
Inference
Suffix
Dative Movement
36. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Language planning
Metaphor
Blends
37. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Utterance
Polyglot
Acronyms
38. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Semantic features
Backformation
Affective connotation
Blends
39. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Backformation
Denotation
Acronyms
Phonology
40. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Phonology
Free morphemes
Calque
Prefix
41. The overall meaning of a text
Maxim of quality
Coherence
Phoneme
Dative Movement
42. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Pragmatics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonology
Diachronic
43. A sentence in context
Free morphemes
Competence
Utterance
Illocutionary Act
44. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
Idioms
Backformation
45. Affix before the root
Derivation
Prefix
Clipping
Maxim of Manner
46. The rise and fall of sentences
Inference
Denotation
Negation
Intonation
47. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Kernel sentence
Bound morphemes
Transformations
48. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Prescriptive
Inference
Phonology
Inflectional morpheme
49. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of relevance
Shibboleth
Deictics
Homonyms
50. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Coded connotations
Passive
Phonetics