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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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1. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Calque
Presupposition
Free morphemes
Coded connotations
2. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Prefix
Morphology
Compounding
Perlocutionary Act
3. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Polyglot
Dative Movement
Blends
4. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Homonyms
Calque
Meaning
5. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Reflected connotation
Blends
Phonology
Metaphor
6. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Maxim of quality
Derivation
Prescriptive
Phonology
7. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Phonetics
Neologism
Blends
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Speech Act
Social connotation
Shibboleth
Clipping
9. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Shibboleth
Calque
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metonymy
10. One who knows many languages
Ambiguity
Competence
Polyglot
Context
11. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Presupposition
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Context
12. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Free morphemes
Sign
Deixis
Derivational morpheme
13. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Affective connotation
Kernel sentence
Blends
Transformations
14. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Phonetics
Particle hopping
Reflected connotation
15. The overall meaning of a text
Prescriptive
Three types of articulations
Coherence
Ambiguity
16. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Phonology
Infix
Question
17. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Inference
Flouting
Three types of articulations
Synchronic
18. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Cohesion
Illocutionary Act
Archaism
Metonymy
19. Affix before the root
Prefix
Utterance
Coherence
Descriptive
20. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Implicature
Idioms
Ambiguity
21. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Archaism
Prefix
Idioms
22. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Metaphor
Adjacency Pair
Coded connotations
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Perlocutionary Act
Performance
Calque
Semantics
24. The ability to produce language - what you know
Phoneme
Competence
Metonymy
Reflected connotation
25. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Lexicon
Synchronic
Maxim of Quantity
26. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Intonation
Deixis
Metaphor
Question
27. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
Metaphor
Deixis
28. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Four components of sounds
Presupposition
Invention
Semantics
29. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Implicature
Morpheme
Neologism
Sign
30. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Adjacency Pair
Social connotation
Coded connotations
Question
31. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Backformation
Idioms
Semantics
Synchronic
32. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Syntax
Perlocutionary Act
Morphology
Inflectional morpheme
33. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Descriptive
Inference
Utterance
Presupposition
34. A word that has died out
Archaism
Utterance
Question
Speech Act
35. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Kernel sentence
Maxim of quality
Diachronic
36. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Clipping
Backformation
Ambiguity
37. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Calque
Inference
Diachronic
Cohesion
38. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Signifier
Affective connotation
Inference
39. Deals with the sounds of a language
Acronyms
Phonetics
Calque
Derivation
40. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of relevance
Language planning
Minimal pair
Cohesion
41. The meaning of a sign
Idioms
Acronyms
Neologism
Signified
42. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Particle hopping
Coded connotations
Deictics
Locutionary Act
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
Language planning
Language planning
44. Affix before the root
Prefix
Negation
Four components of sounds
Context
45. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Collocative connotation
Acronyms
Sign
Transformations
46. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Maxim of Quantity
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Archaism
47. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of Manner
Borrowing
Maxim of relevance
Affective connotation
48. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Backformation
Particle hopping
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
49. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Diachronic
Locutionary Act
Maxim of quality
Particle hopping
50. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Manner
Inference
Performance