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Linguistics Basics
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humanities
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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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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. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Denotation
Denotation
Speech Act
Derivation
2. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Affective connotation
Universal Grammar
Adjacency Pair
Derivational morpheme
3. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Inference
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
Denotation
4. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morpheme
Lexicon
Language planning
5. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Competence
Context
Maxim of quality
Semantics
6. 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
Descriptive
Four components of sounds
International Phonetic Alphabet
7. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Individual/Restricted connotation
Morphology
Archaism
Reflected connotation
8. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Coded connotations
Signified
Pragmatics
Minimal pair
9. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Implicature
Dative Movement
Question
10. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Signified
Cohesion
Universal Grammar
Deictics
11. Affix after the root
Derivational morpheme
Deictics
Suffix
Coherence
12. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Bound morphemes
Phoneme
Three types of articulations
Signified
13. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Invention
Reflected connotation
Descriptive
Dative Movement
14. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Truth value
Derivational morpheme
Bound morphemes
Invention
15. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Sign
Synchronic
Metonymy
16. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Backformation
Blends
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
17. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Flouting
Idioms
Kernel sentence
Universal Grammar
18. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Maxim of quality
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of Manner
19. The meaning of a sign
Free morphemes
Three types of articulations
Signified
Affective connotation
20. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Three types of articulations
Language planning
Syntax
Homonyms
21. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Homonyms
Borrowing
Context
Morphology
22. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Coherence
Homonyms
Free morphemes
Acronyms
23. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Invention
Free morphemes
Referent
Presupposition
24. Meaning components
Free morphemes
Semantic features
Lexicon
Signifier
25. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Derivation
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
Cohesion
26. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Sign
Metaphor
Archaism
Clipping
27. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Ambiguity
Denotation
Inference
Acronyms
28. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Morpheme
Four components of sounds
Phonetics
29. The overall meaning of a text
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Semantic features
Coherence
Four components of sounds
30. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Passive
Language planning
Connotation
31. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Universal Grammar
Archaism
Minimal pair
Question
32. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Context
Coherence
Descriptive
33. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Phonology
Derivation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Competence
34. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Competence
Invention
Four processes by which we produce sound
Cohesion
35. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Affective connotation
Perlocutionary Act
Derivation
36. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Descriptive
Syntax
Linguistics
Borrowing
37. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Metonymy
Morpheme
Meaning
Universal Grammar
38. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Kernel sentence
Presupposition
Shibboleth
Phonology
39. Meaning components
Semantic features
Flouting
Inference
Linguistics
40. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Transformations
Diachronic
Calque
Four processes by which we produce sound
41. Deals with the sounds of a language
Meaning
Phonetics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Ambiguity
42. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Cohesion
Synchronic
Homonyms
Lexicon
43. The meaning derived from flouting
Passive
International Phonetic Alphabet
Implicature
Free morphemes
44. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Locutionary Act
Meaning
International Phonetic Alphabet
45. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Four components of sounds
Recursion
Bound morphemes
46. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Backformation
Minimal pair
Metaphor
Adjacency Pair
47. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Prescriptive
Flouting
Phoneme
48. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Dative Movement
Kernel sentence
Bound morphemes
Calque
49. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Ambiguity
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of Quantity
50. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Calque
Inflectional morpheme
Recursion
Locutionary Act