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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. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Lexicon
Cohesion
Passive
Backformation
2. The meaning of a sign
Inference
Borrowing
Signified
Performance
3. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Phoneme
Lexicon
Particle hopping
4. One who knows many languages
Prescriptive
Synchronic
Polyglot
Archaism
5. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Free morphemes
Derivation
Truth value
6. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Competence
Signified
7. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Locutionary Act
Kernel sentence
International Phonetic Alphabet
Signifier
8. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Prescriptive
9. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Calque
Descriptive
Speech Act
Locutionary Act
10. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Illocutionary Act
Presupposition
Passive
Deictics
11. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Idioms
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
12. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Phonetics
Speech Act
Derivational morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
13. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Question
Performance
Passive
Metaphor
14. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Lexicon
Adjacency Pair
Clipping
Cohesion
15. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Linguistics
Backformation
Context
16. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Affective connotation
Calque
Deictics
Negation
17. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Kernel sentence
Morphology
Archaism
18. The science that studies language
Intonation
Sign
Infix
Linguistics
19. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Recursion
Social connotation
Maxim of Quantity
20. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Deixis
Question
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Quantity
21. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Signifier
Borrowing
Bound morphemes
Three types of articulations
22. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Borrowing
Perlocutionary Act
Competence
Bound morphemes
23. The meaning derived from flouting
Speech Act
Acronyms
Kernel sentence
Implicature
24. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Morphology
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Language planning
Signifier
25. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Blends
Dative Movement
Presupposition
26. Deals with how sentences are formed
Utterance
Backformation
Coded connotations
Syntax
27. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Descriptive
Metaphor
Perlocutionary Act
28. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Locutionary Act
Context
Question
Social connotation
29. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Synchronic
Question
Signifier
30. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Context
Coherence
Illocutionary Act
31. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Reflected connotation
Sign
Shibboleth
Idioms
32. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Polyglot
Intonation
Meaning
Minimal pair
33. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Semantic features
Coherence
Context
34. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Passive
Linguistics
Descriptive
Three types of articulations
35. Affix after the root
Clipping
Social connotation
Suffix
Cohesion
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Derivational morpheme
Acronyms
Maxim of Quantity
Affective connotation
37. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Truth value
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Acronyms
Diachronic
38. The overall meaning of a text
Reflected connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Synchronic
Coherence
39. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Passive
Cohesion
Recursion
Syntax
40. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Morphology
Metaphor
Syntax
41. Affix in the middle of a word
Clipping
Infix
Deixis
Semantics
42. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Calque
Utterance
Metaphor
Clipping
43. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Dative Movement
Semantics
Passive
Pragmatics
44. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Shibboleth
Acronyms
Cohesion
45. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Phoneme
Signifier
Ambiguity
Lexicon
46. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Flouting
International Phonetic Alphabet
Referent
Invention
47. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Affective connotation
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
Acronyms
48. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Prefix
Deixis
Ambiguity
Reflected connotation
49. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Metonymy
Speech Act
Context
Ambiguity
50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Syntax
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morpheme