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Linguistics Basics
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Subject
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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. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Clipping
Suffix
Free morphemes
Deixis
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Particle hopping
Clipping
Suffix
3. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Polyglot
Compounding
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Reflected connotation
4. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Compounding
Morpheme
Context
Descriptive
5. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Denotation
Maxim of Quantity
Four processes by which we produce sound
6. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Borrowing
Bound morphemes
Minimal pair
Four components of sounds
7. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Idioms
Morphology
Semantics
Intonation
8. Affix in the middle of a word
Compounding
Infix
Idioms
Acronyms
9. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Presupposition
Shibboleth
Speech Act
Language planning
10. Mental representation of a word
Semantics
Meaning
Implicature
Shibboleth
11. A word that has died out
Performance
Prefix
Archaism
Social connotation
12. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Maxim of relevance
Universal Grammar
Reflected connotation
Particle hopping
13. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Signifier
Affective connotation
Signified
Meaning
14. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Question
Reflected connotation
Synchronic
Three types of articulations
15. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Adjacency Pair
Denotation
Utterance
16. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Question
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Blends
Flouting
17. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Maxim of relevance
Metaphor
Lexicon
Morpheme
18. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Language planning
Perlocutionary Act
Inference
Coherence
19. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Bound morphemes
20. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Competence
Language planning
Backformation
Suffix
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Morpheme
Coded connotations
Synchronic
Polyglot
22. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of quality
Meaning
Signifier
23. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Deixis
Descriptive
Question
International Phonetic Alphabet
24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Ambiguity
Free morphemes
Particle hopping
Morpheme
25. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Presupposition
Cohesion
Compounding
International Phonetic Alphabet
26. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Compounding
Flouting
Utterance
Speech Act
27. Deals with the sounds of a language
International Phonetic Alphabet
Question
Phonetics
Derivation
28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Invention
Synchronic
Homonyms
Coherence
29. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Prefix
Idioms
Invention
Metonymy
30. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Collocative connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Free morphemes
Implicature
31. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Competence
Acronyms
Maxim of quality
Deictics
32. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Metonymy
Linguistics
Maxim of quality
Infix
33. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive
Pragmatics
Phoneme
34. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Speech Act
Connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Semantic features
35. A new word
Neologism
Borrowing
Minimal pair
Competence
36. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
Flouting
Derivation
37. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Descriptive
Invention
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Inference
38. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Derivation
Sign
Morpheme
39. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Signified
Clipping
Inflectional morpheme
Pragmatics
40. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Individual/Restricted connotation
Infix
Four components of sounds
Question
41. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Blends
Prescriptive
Truth value
Backformation
42. A sentence in context
Maxim of quality
Blends
Utterance
Universal Grammar
43. The science that studies language
Neologism
Linguistics
Implicature
Descriptive
44. Deals with the sounds of a language
Illocutionary Act
Backformation
Phonetics
Lexicon
45. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coded connotations
Infix
Question
46. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Cohesion
Compounding
Speech Act
Social connotation
47. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Archaism
Minimal pair
Inference
Polyglot
48. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Transformations
Synchronic
Ambiguity
49. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Deictics
Truth value
Universal Grammar
Presupposition
50. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
Semantics
Minimal pair