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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. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Polyglot
Negation
Flouting
2. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Phonetics
Referent
Bound morphemes
Performance
3. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Cohesion
Context
Flouting
4. The ability to produce language - what you know
Competence
Deixis
Referent
Compounding
5. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of quality
Homonyms
Diachronic
Maxim of relevance
6. Meaning components
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Universal Grammar
Derivation
Semantic features
7. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Morpheme
Shibboleth
Calque
Maxim of Manner
8. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Meaning
Semantics
Question
Passive
9. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Acronyms
Coded connotations
Prescriptive
Presupposition
10. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Acronyms
Signified
Adjacency Pair
Shibboleth
11. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metonymy
Context
Phonology
12. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Flouting
Semantics
Free morphemes
13. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Minimal pair
Universal Grammar
Referent
Individual/Restricted connotation
14. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Phonology
Diachronic
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivation
15. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Semantics
Phonology
Backformation
Phoneme
16. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Semantic features
Sign
Implicature
Locutionary Act
17. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Kernel sentence
Affective connotation
Bound morphemes
Performance
18. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Synchronic
Deixis
Minimal pair
Context
19. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Borrowing
Derivation
Phoneme
Truth value
20. One who knows many languages
International Phonetic Alphabet
Collocative connotation
Idioms
Polyglot
21. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Infix
Four processes by which we produce sound
Presupposition
Utterance
22. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Calque
Inflectional morpheme
Polyglot
Idioms
23. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Context
Deixis
Archaism
Four processes by which we produce sound
24. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Morphology
Backformation
Invention
Descriptive
25. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Borrowing
Morpheme
26. An utterance produced by a speaker
Denotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Speech Act
Passive
27. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Truth value
Particle hopping
Categorizations of Speech Acts
28. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
Language planning
Derivational morpheme
29. Deals with how sentences are formed
Four components of sounds
Syntax
Referent
Flouting
30. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Speech Act
Archaism
Inference
Borrowing
31. Affix after the root
Lexicon
Polyglot
Particle hopping
Suffix
32. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Ambiguity
Maxim of Quantity
Language planning
Prefix
33. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Polyglot
Implicature
Cohesion
34. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Utterance
Blends
Ambiguity
Maxim of quality
35. One who knows many languages
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
Recursion
Illocutionary Act
36. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Context
Acronyms
Lexicon
37. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Semantic features
Four components of sounds
Maxim of relevance
Diachronic
38. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metonymy
Invention
Backformation
39. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Cohesion
Phonetics
Diachronic
Acronyms
40. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Inference
Deictics
Compounding
Collocative connotation
41. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Backformation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Kernel sentence
Coherence
42. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Idioms
Shibboleth
Calque
Categorizations of Speech Acts
43. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Idioms
Inference
Perlocutionary Act
44. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Negation
Clipping
Ambiguity
Semantic features
45. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Prefix
Prescriptive
Truth value
Maxim of Manner
46. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Passive
Homonyms
Idioms
International Phonetic Alphabet
47. The science that studies language
Deictics
Four processes by which we produce sound
Linguistics
Presupposition
48. Mental representation of a word
Presupposition
Truth value
Meaning
Collocative connotation
49. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Affective connotation
Deixis
Minimal pair
Phonology
50. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Illocutionary Act
Signified
Performance
Lexicon