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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 overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Calque
Affective connotation
Universal Grammar
2. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Inflectional morpheme
Utterance
Shibboleth
Prefix
3. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
Descriptive
Homonyms
4. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Signified
Bound morphemes
Acronyms
Derivation
5. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Coded connotations
Referent
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of Quantity
6. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Competence
Performance
Homonyms
Metonymy
7. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Maxim of quality
Coded connotations
Collocative connotation
Locutionary Act
8. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Maxim of Manner
Four components of sounds
Connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
9. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Diachronic
Suffix
Metaphor
10. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Social connotation
Context
Phoneme
Inflectional morpheme
11. Deals with how sentences are formed
Acronyms
Competence
Coherence
Syntax
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Syntax
Perlocutionary Act
Affective connotation
Archaism
13. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Archaism
Context
Utterance
14. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Coherence
Borrowing
Calque
Suffix
15. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Referent
Context
Coherence
Universal Grammar
16. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Perlocutionary Act
Competence
Acronyms
17. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Signifier
Question
Universal Grammar
Coherence
18. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Free morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Cohesion
19. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Derivational morpheme
Clipping
Truth value
Maxim of Manner
20. Affix before the root
Referent
Prefix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Recursion
21. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Free morphemes
Morphology
Synchronic
22. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Descriptive
Homonyms
Universal Grammar
23. A word that has died out
Intonation
Polyglot
Archaism
Referent
24. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Meaning
Locutionary Act
Linguistics
Inference
25. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Flouting
Meaning
Speech Act
26. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Locutionary Act
Recursion
Intonation
Signifier
27. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Metonymy
Synchronic
Suffix
Inflectional morpheme
28. The overall meaning of a text
Passive
Coherence
Kernel sentence
Prescriptive
29. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Coherence
Semantics
Bound morphemes
Descriptive
30. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Coded connotations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Meaning
31. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Suffix
Negation
Blends
Borrowing
32. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Phonetics
Individual/Restricted connotation
Clipping
Infix
33. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Prefix
Deictics
Passive
34. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Particle hopping
Reflected connotation
Homonyms
35. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Bound morphemes
Synchronic
Particle hopping
Coherence
36. Deals with the sounds of a language
Maxim of quality
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
Diachronic
37. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Invention
Phonology
Phonetics
38. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Lexicon
Backformation
Truth value
Shibboleth
39. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivational morpheme
Infix
Derivation
Phoneme
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Pragmatics
Backformation
Flouting
41. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Homonyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantics
Referent
42. Meaning components
Derivational morpheme
Semantic features
Affective connotation
Denotation
43. Deals with the sounds of a language
Question
Phonetics
Affective connotation
Transformations
44. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Presupposition
45. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Clipping
Phoneme
Semantic features
Morphology
46. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Social connotation
Compounding
Neologism
Ambiguity
47. Affix before the root
Denotation
Dative Movement
Adjacency Pair
Prefix
48. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Maxim of relevance
Particle hopping
Borrowing
Kernel sentence
49. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Language planning
Truth value
Individual/Restricted connotation
50. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Borrowing
Deixis
Syntax