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Linguistics Basics
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Four processes by which we produce sound
Prescriptive
2. The ability to produce language - what you know
Maxim of Manner
Competence
Affective connotation
Morpheme
3. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Context
Signified
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
4. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Question
Deictics
Recursion
Collocative connotation
5. Affix in the middle of a word
Invention
Infix
Acronyms
Affective connotation
6. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Social connotation
Four components of sounds
Infix
Reflected connotation
7. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Metonymy
Pragmatics
Borrowing
Meaning
8. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Performance
Adjacency Pair
Universal Grammar
Language planning
9. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Denotation
Locutionary Act
Dative Movement
Syntax
10. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Four components of sounds
Semantic features
Recursion
Signifier
11. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
Pragmatics
Implicature
12. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Phoneme
Utterance
Maxim of quality
Maxim of Quantity
13. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Neologism
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Recursion
Shibboleth
14. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Linguistics
Locutionary Act
Borrowing
15. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Signified
Kernel sentence
Invention
Performance
16. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Homonyms
Metonymy
Idioms
Lexicon
17. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Transformations
Metaphor
Idioms
18. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Linguistics
Signified
Acronyms
Semantics
19. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Blends
Reflected connotation
Referent
Derivational morpheme
20. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Performance
Metaphor
Synchronic
Kernel sentence
21. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Backformation
Semantic features
Truth value
22. Affix before the root
Borrowing
Prefix
Signified
Derivational morpheme
23. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Context
Metonymy
Illocutionary Act
Phonetics
24. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Compounding
Archaism
Minimal pair
25. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Syntax
Referent
Derivation
Truth value
26. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Blends
Inference
27. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Inflectional morpheme
Derivational morpheme
Negation
Maxim of quality
28. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Calque
Denotation
Maxim of relevance
29. Mental representation of a word
Metonymy
Cohesion
Affective connotation
Meaning
30. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Maxim of Quantity
Semantic features
Sign
Inflectional morpheme
31. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Meaning
Dative Movement
Flouting
32. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Morpheme
Polyglot
Prescriptive
33. Mental representation of a word
Negation
Four components of sounds
Bound morphemes
Meaning
34. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Polyglot
Performance
Polyglot
Competence
35. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Metaphor
Passive
Presupposition
Negation
36. A word that has died out
Clipping
Archaism
Morphology
Invention
37. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Meaning
Implicature
Lexicon
Speech Act
38. The science that studies language
Signified
Linguistics
Language planning
Maxim of Quantity
39. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Lexicon
Metaphor
Compounding
Deictics
40. The overall meaning of a text
Phonology
Coherence
Kernel sentence
Pragmatics
41. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Inference
Coded connotations
Phonology
Cohesion
42. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Recursion
Referent
Denotation
43. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Signified
Inflectional morpheme
Derivational morpheme
44. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Polyglot
Semantics
Dative Movement
Free morphemes
45. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Phonetics
Derivational morpheme
Coded connotations
46. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Deictics
Syntax
Collocative connotation
Transformations
47. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Universal Grammar
Illocutionary Act
Transformations
Blends
48. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Synchronic
Backformation
Question
Recursion
49. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Illocutionary Act
Homonyms
Pragmatics
50. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Coherence
Adjacency Pair
Dative Movement
Linguistics