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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 object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Transformations
Presupposition
Metaphor
2. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Dative Movement
Kernel sentence
Pragmatics
Semantics
3. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Phonetics
Suffix
Coded connotations
Deictics
4. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
Minimal pair
Syntax
5. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Dative Movement
Diachronic
Prescriptive
6. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Referent
Presupposition
Adjacency Pair
Calque
7. A word that has died out
Lexicon
Diachronic
Polyglot
Archaism
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Performance
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
Social connotation
9. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Blends
Maxim of quality
10. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Backformation
Phoneme
Four components of sounds
Presupposition
11. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Maxim of Manner
Pragmatics
Signifier
Locutionary Act
12. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Metonymy
Ambiguity
Context
Deictics
13. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Particle hopping
Diachronic
Reflected connotation
Invention
14. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Morphology
Syntax
Question
15. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Polyglot
Meaning
Borrowing
Prescriptive
16. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Semantic features
Calque
Syntax
17. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Sign
Diachronic
Connotation
Pragmatics
18. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Context
Neologism
Three types of articulations
19. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Acronyms
Recursion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Perlocutionary Act
20. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Individual/Restricted connotation
Clipping
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
21. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Context
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Polyglot
Phoneme
22. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Deictics
Competence
Prefix
23. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Universal Grammar
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
24. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Shibboleth
Diachronic
Signifier
Individual/Restricted connotation
25. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Negation
Affective connotation
Deixis
Calque
26. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Coherence
Flouting
Maxim of Manner
Adjacency Pair
27. One who knows many languages
Minimal pair
Individual/Restricted connotation
Polyglot
Categorizations of Speech Acts
28. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Flouting
Dative Movement
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
29. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Negation
Archaism
Flouting
Compounding
30. The meaning derived from flouting
Suffix
Implicature
Morpheme
Reflected connotation
31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Referent
Compounding
Performance
Lexicon
32. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Phonology
Reflected connotation
Three types of articulations
Speech Act
33. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Synchronic
Illocutionary Act
Reflected connotation
Minimal pair
34. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Kernel sentence
Semantics
Denotation
35. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
Connotation
Four components of sounds
36. The science that studies language
Free morphemes
Signifier
Linguistics
Coded connotations
37. A sentence in context
Coded connotations
Implicature
Shibboleth
Utterance
38. The overall meaning of a text
Flouting
Coherence
Polyglot
Prefix
39. A sentence in context
Referent
Illocutionary Act
Intonation
Utterance
40. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Prefix
Inference
Deixis
Meaning
41. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Compounding
Meaning
Speech Act
42. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Syntax
Inference
Recursion
43. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Deixis
Homonyms
Compounding
Inference
44. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Dative Movement
Signifier
Ambiguity
Homonyms
45. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Dative Movement
Descriptive
Referent
Inference
46. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Lexicon
Calque
Negation
Recursion
47. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Particle hopping
Illocutionary Act
Passive
48. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Maxim of quality
Performance
Transformations
49. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Context
Inference
Speech Act
Meaning
50. The meaning derived from flouting
Referent
Meaning
Descriptive
Implicature