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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 object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Kernel sentence
Phonology
Speech Act
2. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Inference
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phonology
3. The rise and fall of sentences
Deictics
Flouting
Intonation
Blends
4. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Phonology
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
Signifier
5. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Prefix
Deictics
Social connotation
6. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Social connotation
Calque
Inference
7. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Implicature
Morphology
Phonology
8. The meaning of a sign
Speech Act
Signified
Pragmatics
Clipping
9. The meaning derived from flouting
Calque
Maxim of relevance
Question
Implicature
10. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Signified
Maxim of quality
Clipping
11. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Particle hopping
Bound morphemes
Signified
12. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Implicature
Utterance
Lexicon
Performance
13. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Blends
Speech Act
Phonology
Cohesion
14. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Diachronic
Shibboleth
Coded connotations
Individual/Restricted connotation
15. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Descriptive
Infix
Individual/Restricted connotation
16. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Metonymy
Homonyms
Lexicon
Negation
17. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Affective connotation
Inference
Suffix
Passive
18. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Presupposition
Morpheme
Collocative connotation
Transformations
19. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Coded connotations
Clipping
Passive
20. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Collocative connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
Borrowing
21. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Competence
Phoneme
Flouting
22. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Bound morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Syntax
23. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Deixis
Signified
Adjacency Pair
Categorizations of Speech Acts
24. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Morphology
Calque
Lexicon
Metonymy
25. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Speech Act
Coded connotations
Context
26. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Transformations
Reflected connotation
Ambiguity
27. Mental representation of a word
Suffix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Idioms
Meaning
28. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Calque
Sign
Truth value
29. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metonymy
Utterance
Inference
30. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Competence
Linguistics
Four processes by which we produce sound
Signifier
31. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Truth value
Referent
Idioms
32. Meaning components
Four components of sounds
Semantic features
Transformations
Free morphemes
33. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Speech Act
Acronyms
Idioms
Morpheme
34. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Phonetics
Recursion
Minimal pair
35. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Language planning
Inflectional morpheme
Flouting
Speech Act
36. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Three types of articulations
Universal Grammar
Phonetics
Homonyms
37. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Context
Deictics
Suffix
Metaphor
38. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Social connotation
Maxim of quality
Backformation
39. Affix in the middle of a word
Neologism
Borrowing
Cohesion
Infix
40. The meaning of a sign
Borrowing
Linguistics
Transformations
Signified
41. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Diachronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Linguistics
Neologism
42. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Signifier
Derivational morpheme
Truth value
Affective connotation
43. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Derivation
Diachronic
Compounding
44. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Pragmatics
Meaning
Derivation
Infix
45. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Lexicon
Signified
Blends
46. The meaning derived from flouting
Four components of sounds
Bound morphemes
Universal Grammar
Implicature
47. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Quantity
Metaphor
Social connotation
48. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Bound morphemes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Blends
Context
49. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Diachronic
Invention
Language planning
50. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Compounding
Affective connotation
Presupposition
Morphology