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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. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Recursion
Implicature
Speech Act
2. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Performance
Prescriptive
Social connotation
Maxim of relevance
3. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Cohesion
Derivation
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of Manner
4. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Utterance
Perlocutionary Act
Locutionary Act
5. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Three types of articulations
Inference
Homonyms
Maxim of Quantity
6. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Prefix
Linguistics
Locutionary Act
Truth value
7. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Adjacency Pair
Suffix
8. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Presupposition
Affective connotation
Inference
Morpheme
9. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Maxim of Quantity
Inflectional morpheme
Coded connotations
10. Affix after the root
Shibboleth
Suffix
Linguistics
Adjacency Pair
11. The ability to produce language - what you know
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prefix
Competence
Syntax
12. One who knows many languages
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Implicature
Polyglot
13. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Performance
Borrowing
Free morphemes
Four processes by which we produce sound
14. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Adjacency Pair
Meaning
Metaphor
Four processes by which we produce sound
15. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Morpheme
Borrowing
Affective connotation
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Sign
Collocative connotation
Social connotation
Neologism
17. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Ambiguity
Affective connotation
Descriptive
International Phonetic Alphabet
18. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
Affective connotation
19. Mental representation of a word
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
Calque
Meaning
20. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Language planning
Phonology
Flouting
Phoneme
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Universal Grammar
Bound morphemes
Coded connotations
Homonyms
22. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Free morphemes
Phonology
Free morphemes
23. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Dative Movement
Bound morphemes
Deixis
Language planning
24. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Perlocutionary Act
Truth value
Meaning
Calque
25. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Acronyms
Collocative connotation
Competence
Social connotation
26. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Deixis
Morphology
Inference
Four components of sounds
27. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Metaphor
Archaism
Free morphemes
Performance
28. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Four components of sounds
Intonation
Maxim of quality
Minimal pair
29. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Derivational morpheme
Linguistics
Archaism
Maxim of Quantity
30. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Clipping
Morpheme
Reflected connotation
Denotation
31. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Universal Grammar
Four processes by which we produce sound
Transformations
32. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Maxim of Quantity
Coded connotations
Performance
Borrowing
33. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Suffix
Affective connotation
Recursion
34. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Language planning
Speech Act
Three types of articulations
35. A sentence in context
Utterance
Signified
Truth value
Passive
36. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Deictics
Homonyms
Flouting
Descriptive
37. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Metonymy
Semantics
Derivation
38. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Descriptive
Acronyms
Inference
Illocutionary Act
39. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Social connotation
Compounding
Maxim of Manner
Blends
40. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Neologism
Backformation
Recursion
41. Deals with the sounds of a language
Descriptive
Phonetics
Suffix
Minimal pair
42. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Transformations
Three types of articulations
Backformation
43. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Backformation
Free morphemes
Maxim of Manner
Connotation
44. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Ambiguity
Clipping
Referent
45. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Maxim of relevance
Invention
Kernel sentence
Four processes by which we produce sound
46. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Maxim of Manner
Morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Deictics
47. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Social connotation
Minimal pair
Morphology
48. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Three types of articulations
Linguistics
Blends
Syntax
49. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Three types of articulations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivation
50. A sentence in context
Derivational morpheme
Utterance
Deixis
Kernel sentence