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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. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Morphology
Universal Grammar
Recursion
Competence
2. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Shibboleth
Compounding
Backformation
Lexicon
3. A word that has died out
Backformation
Question
Ambiguity
Archaism
4. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Language planning
Utterance
Syntax
Context
5. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Sign
Syntax
Semantics
6. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Presupposition
Ambiguity
Blends
Particle hopping
7. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Maxim of quality
Free morphemes
Descriptive
International Phonetic Alphabet
8. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Perlocutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
Signifier
Passive
9. The science that studies language
Flouting
Linguistics
Derivational morpheme
Homonyms
10. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Derivation
Adjacency Pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
Social connotation
11. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Idioms
Maxim of Manner
Illocutionary Act
12. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Maxim of relevance
Negation
Derivation
13. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Clipping
Affective connotation
Infix
14. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Clipping
Morphology
Connotation
Three types of articulations
15. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Referent
Presupposition
Synchronic
Inflectional morpheme
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Diachronic
Suffix
Descriptive
Particle hopping
17. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantic features
Synchronic
Metaphor
18. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Deictics
Phoneme
Maxim of Quantity
Question
19. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Phonetics
Meaning
Deixis
20. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Locutionary Act
Truth value
Connotation
Coded connotations
21. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of Quantity
Lexicon
Homonyms
Cohesion
22. Mental representation of a word
Free morphemes
Meaning
Denotation
Calque
23. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Collocative connotation
Illocutionary Act
Four components of sounds
Individual/Restricted connotation
24. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Diachronic
Phonetics
Recursion
25. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Four processes by which we produce sound
Blends
Syntax
Phonology
26. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Neologism
Phonology
Phoneme
27. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Calque
Morpheme
Maxim of Manner
28. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Performance
International Phonetic Alphabet
Minimal pair
Dative Movement
29. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Polyglot
Four components of sounds
Inflectional morpheme
Connotation
30. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Meaning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Semantics
Minimal pair
31. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Prescriptive
Competence
Performance
Deixis
32. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Derivation
Affective connotation
Archaism
Compounding
33. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Semantics
Maxim of quality
Question
Minimal pair
34. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Reflected connotation
Coded connotations
Metonymy
Competence
35. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Polyglot
Derivation
Morpheme
Question
36. Affix in the middle of a word
Inference
Infix
Suffix
Coded connotations
37. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Idioms
Syntax
Neologism
38. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Four components of sounds
Denotation
39. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Signified
Particle hopping
Derivation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
40. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Semantics
Morpheme
Sign
Competence
41. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Archaism
Speech Act
Denotation
Bound morphemes
42. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Dative Movement
Minimal pair
Phoneme
Utterance
43. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Clipping
Three types of articulations
Inflectional morpheme
44. Deals with how sentences are formed
Blends
Collocative connotation
Syntax
Denotation
45. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Polyglot
Performance
Prefix
International Phonetic Alphabet
46. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Syntax
Inference
Blends
Negation
47. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coherence
48. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Neologism
Metaphor
Synchronic
Transformations
49. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Inference
Free morphemes
Implicature
Coded connotations
50. Meaning components
Cohesion
Semantic features
Language planning
Free morphemes