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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. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Passive
Acronyms
Phonetics
Free morphemes
2. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Blends
Prescriptive
Context
Lexicon
3. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of relevance
Homonyms
4. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Four processes by which we produce sound
Clipping
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of quality
5. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Morphology
Denotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
6. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Truth value
Phoneme
Signified
7. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Suffix
Invention
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Shibboleth
8. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Maxim of quality
Language planning
Morphology
Diachronic
9. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Descriptive
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive
Recursion
10. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Four components of sounds
Prescriptive
Truth value
Denotation
11. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Meaning
Shibboleth
Signified
12. The science that studies language
Prescriptive
Lexicon
Linguistics
Polyglot
13. The ability to produce language - what you know
Phonetics
Competence
Archaism
Recursion
14. A new word
Passive
Neologism
Semantics
Flouting
15. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Descriptive
Free morphemes
Signified
16. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Implicature
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
Illocutionary Act
17. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Connotation
Performance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Denotation
18. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
Transformations
Pragmatics
19. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Meaning
Universal Grammar
Recursion
Presupposition
20. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Coded connotations
Borrowing
Reflected connotation
Descriptive
21. Affix before the root
Flouting
Diachronic
Prefix
Shibboleth
22. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Compounding
23. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Locutionary Act
Lexicon
Coherence
Illocutionary Act
24. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Clipping
Phonetics
Bound morphemes
Particle hopping
25. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Flouting
Three types of articulations
Coherence
Lexicon
26. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Dative Movement
Intonation
Sign
27. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Phonetics
Maxim of relevance
Morpheme
Semantics
28. A new word
Synchronic
Minimal pair
Neologism
Maxim of Quantity
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Implicature
Social connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Phonology
30. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Social connotation
Backformation
Perlocutionary Act
Shibboleth
31. Meaning components
Truth value
Pragmatics
Semantic features
Coded connotations
32. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Archaism
Synchronic
Denotation
Suffix
33. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Synchronic
Maxim of quality
Backformation
Prescriptive
34. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Presupposition
Phonology
Cohesion
Deixis
35. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Morphology
Presupposition
Transformations
36. The rise and fall of sentences
Connotation
Intonation
Lexicon
Categorizations of Speech Acts
37. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Locutionary Act
Question
Four components of sounds
Morpheme
38. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Synchronic
Connotation
Maxim of quality
Passive
39. Deals with the sounds of a language
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
Phonetics
Transformations
40. Affix after the root
Sign
Maxim of relevance
Perlocutionary Act
Suffix
41. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Phonetics
Speech Act
Inference
Locutionary Act
42. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Competence
Syntax
International Phonetic Alphabet
Collocative connotation
43. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Deixis
Maxim of quality
Backformation
Pragmatics
44. The meaning derived from flouting
Backformation
Signifier
Implicature
Reflected connotation
45. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
Social connotation
46. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Suffix
Compounding
Signified
Truth value
47. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Denotation
Meaning
Semantics
Deictics
48. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Particle hopping
Referent
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
49. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Phonology
Morpheme
Deictics
Deixis
50. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Locutionary Act
Universal Grammar
Morpheme
Free morphemes