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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. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Adjacency Pair
Dative Movement
Neologism
2. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of quality
Question
Homonyms
Inflectional morpheme
3. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Calque
Meaning
Intonation
Acronyms
4. The ability to produce language - what you know
Descriptive
Particle hopping
Minimal pair
Competence
5. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Context
Recursion
Signified
6. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Coded connotations
Dative Movement
Homonyms
Lexicon
7. Deals with how sentences are formed
Individual/Restricted connotation
Context
Syntax
Coherence
8. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Negation
Collocative connotation
Deixis
9. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Adjacency Pair
Metaphor
Deictics
Invention
10. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Context
Negation
Universal Grammar
Metaphor
11. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Maxim of quality
Kernel sentence
Descriptive
12. An utterance produced by a speaker
Competence
Phonology
Idioms
Speech Act
13. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Collocative connotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Particle hopping
14. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Dative Movement
Backformation
Linguistics
15. Meaning components
Semantic features
Linguistics
Inflectional morpheme
Coded connotations
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Infix
Collocative connotation
Truth value
Prescriptive
17. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Cohesion
Metonymy
Calque
Performance
18. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Kernel sentence
Infix
Bound morphemes
Diachronic
19. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Performance
Semantic features
Blends
20. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Ambiguity
Signified
Prescriptive
Neologism
21. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Derivational morpheme
Sign
Shibboleth
Blends
22. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Lexicon
Perlocutionary Act
Infix
Morpheme
23. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Compounding
Diachronic
Perlocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
24. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Minimal pair
Idioms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Affective connotation
25. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Homonyms
Dative Movement
Prescriptive
Phonology
26. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Four processes by which we produce sound
Cohesion
Deictics
Diachronic
27. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Transformations
Affective connotation
Derivational morpheme
28. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Maxim of Quantity
Descriptive
Maxim of Quantity
Pragmatics
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Three types of articulations
Social connotation
30. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Affective connotation
Reflected connotation
Semantic features
Social connotation
31. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Recursion
Synchronic
Maxim of Manner
Social connotation
32. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Language planning
Compounding
Homonyms
Minimal pair
33. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Four processes by which we produce sound
Collocative connotation
Inference
Descriptive
34. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Semantic features
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Connotation
Lexicon
35. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of relevance
Calque
Implicature
36. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Prescriptive
Performance
Categorizations of Speech Acts
37. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Coherence
Individual/Restricted connotation
Referent
Context
38. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Morpheme
Collocative connotation
Four components of sounds
Four processes by which we produce sound
39. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Linguistics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Transformations
Maxim of Quantity
40. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Presupposition
Bound morphemes
Deixis
41. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Illocutionary Act
Derivation
Utterance
Flouting
42. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Presupposition
Reflected connotation
Four components of sounds
43. The rise and fall of sentences
Cohesion
Intonation
Syntax
Negation
44. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Syntax
Perlocutionary Act
Acronyms
45. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Negation
Affective connotation
Diachronic
Invention
46. A word that has died out
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Shibboleth
Synchronic
Archaism
47. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Ambiguity
Meaning
Negation
Invention
48. The meaning of a sign
Lexicon
Maxim of Quantity
Derivation
Signified
49. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Presupposition
Pragmatics
Context
50. An utterance produced by a speaker
Phonetics
Diachronic
Speech Act
Clipping