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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Meaning components
Inflectional morpheme
Polyglot
Descriptive
Semantic features
2. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Infix
Context
Clipping
3. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Three types of articulations
Four components of sounds
Language planning
Signified
4. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Neologism
Deixis
Language planning
5. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Performance
Syntax
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
6. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Backformation
Signifier
7. Affix before the root
Borrowing
Passive
Blends
Prefix
8. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Sign
Acronyms
Context
Borrowing
9. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Speech Act
Polyglot
Free morphemes
Maxim of Quantity
10. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Morphology
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Quantity
Bound morphemes
11. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Passive
Deictics
Calque
12. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Backformation
Shibboleth
Lexicon
13. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Invention
Connotation
Coded connotations
14. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Dative Movement
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
Free morphemes
15. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
International Phonetic Alphabet
Suffix
Presupposition
Pragmatics
16. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Locutionary Act
Negation
Signifier
Metaphor
17. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Metonymy
Calque
Coded connotations
Passive
18. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Backformation
Synchronic
Signifier
19. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Competence
Utterance
Inference
Recursion
20. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Intonation
Morphology
Context
Acronyms
21. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Lexicon
Maxim of relevance
Clipping
Performance
22. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Implicature
Bound morphemes
Signified
23. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Competence
Reflected connotation
Performance
Sign
24. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Coherence
Phoneme
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
25. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Phonology
Acronyms
Morpheme
Deictics
26. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Descriptive
Synchronic
Speech Act
Four components of sounds
27. One who knows many languages
Minimal pair
Polyglot
Maxim of quality
Language planning
28. Affix after the root
Suffix
Four components of sounds
Maxim of relevance
Signifier
29. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Four components of sounds
Synchronic
Semantics
Speech Act
30. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Connotation
Invention
Performance
Locutionary Act
31. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Derivational morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Speech Act
Compounding
32. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Deixis
Flouting
Acronyms
Signifier
33. A sentence in context
Phonology
Archaism
Coherence
Utterance
34. Deals with how sentences are formed
Minimal pair
Syntax
Semantics
Blends
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Metonymy
Collocative connotation
Dative Movement
Clipping
36. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Implicature
Maxim of Manner
Competence
Homonyms
37. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Affective connotation
Three types of articulations
Prefix
Calque
38. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Suffix
Language planning
Sign
Bound morphemes
39. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Ambiguity
Invention
Shibboleth
40. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Particle hopping
Semantic features
Metonymy
Dative Movement
41. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Deixis
Descriptive
Illocutionary Act
Presupposition
42. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Intonation
Maxim of relevance
Adjacency Pair
43. Affix before the root
Language planning
Prefix
Negation
Connotation
44. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Calque
Phonology
Deixis
45. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Kernel sentence
Neologism
Maxim of quality
Deixis
46. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Referent
Semantics
Denotation
Borrowing
47. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Locutionary Act
Pragmatics
Shibboleth
Performance
48. Affix in the middle of a word
Context
Signifier
Infix
Implicature
49. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
Competence
Maxim of Manner
50. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Lexicon
Prefix
Signifier
Cohesion