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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Blends
Prefix
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Homonyms
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Performance
Homonyms
Compounding
Particle hopping
3. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Metonymy
Utterance
Negation
Performance
4. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Borrowing
Signifier
Free morphemes
Negation
5. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Derivation
Locutionary Act
Three types of articulations
Transformations
6. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Invention
Dative Movement
Ambiguity
International Phonetic Alphabet
7. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Deixis
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
Invention
8. Affix before the root
Polyglot
Prefix
Minimal pair
Adjacency Pair
9. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Presupposition
Minimal pair
Idioms
Semantics
10. Deals with how sentences are formed
Collocative connotation
Polyglot
Context
Syntax
11. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Clipping
Metaphor
Diachronic
12. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Three types of articulations
Diachronic
Compounding
Phonetics
13. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Language planning
Signified
Presupposition
14. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Metonymy
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Speech Act
15. An utterance produced by a speaker
Metaphor
Question
Speech Act
Inference
16. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Syntax
Semantic features
Shibboleth
17. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Question
Social connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Universal Grammar
18. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Language planning
Negation
Coherence
19. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Utterance
Locutionary Act
Synchronic
Metonymy
20. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Derivation
Descriptive
Truth value
21. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Idioms
Metonymy
Language planning
Question
22. One who knows many languages
International Phonetic Alphabet
Polyglot
Deictics
Utterance
23. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
Recursion
Utterance
24. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Speech Act
Pragmatics
Particle hopping
Synchronic
25. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Derivation
Semantics
Truth value
Idioms
26. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Presupposition
Free morphemes
Collocative connotation
Particle hopping
27. Mental representation of a word
International Phonetic Alphabet
Meaning
Maxim of relevance
Passive
28. A word that has died out
Archaism
Passive
Diachronic
Bound morphemes
29. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Minimal pair
Synchronic
Acronyms
30. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Recursion
Ambiguity
Adjacency Pair
Synchronic
31. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Morphology
Backformation
Presupposition
Four components of sounds
32. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Shibboleth
Reflected connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
33. The meaning derived from flouting
Borrowing
Signifier
Implicature
Phonology
34. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Collocative connotation
Linguistics
Prefix
Cohesion
35. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Context
Prescriptive
Infix
Coded connotations
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Signifier
Borrowing
Affective connotation
Backformation
37. Deals with how sentences are formed
Signifier
Intonation
Utterance
Syntax
38. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Locutionary Act
Backformation
Free morphemes
Context
39. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Syntax
Transformations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Sign
40. The overall meaning of a text
Semantic features
Polyglot
Maxim of Manner
Coherence
41. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Lexicon
Shibboleth
Deictics
Compounding
42. A new word
Neologism
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
Free morphemes
43. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Locutionary Act
Morphology
Invention
Synchronic
44. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Competence
Maxim of Manner
International Phonetic Alphabet
45. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Denotation
Context
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
46. A new word
Polyglot
Neologism
Semantics
Truth value
47. The meaning of a sign
Pragmatics
Signified
Implicature
Shibboleth
48. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Deictics
Metonymy
Maxim of Quantity
49. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Reflected connotation
Semantics
Individual/Restricted connotation
Perlocutionary Act
50. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Competence
Flouting
Truth value