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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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1. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Descriptive
Particle hopping
Adjacency Pair
2. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Speech Act
Inference
Truth value
Sign
3. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Reflected connotation
Inflectional morpheme
Connotation
Phonology
4. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Social connotation
Coded connotations
Derivational morpheme
Three types of articulations
5. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Ambiguity
Semantics
Locutionary Act
Metaphor
6. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Phonology
Deictics
Maxim of relevance
Minimal pair
7. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Referent
Three types of articulations
Archaism
Morpheme
8. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Metonymy
Social connotation
Maxim of Manner
9. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Metaphor
Deictics
Context
Negation
10. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Ambiguity
Maxim of relevance
Collocative connotation
Context
11. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Speech Act
Acronyms
Archaism
12. Affix in the middle of a word
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Four processes by which we produce sound
Infix
Inflectional morpheme
13. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Social connotation
Minimal pair
Archaism
Performance
14. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Competence
Backformation
Maxim of quality
Adjacency Pair
15. The ability to produce language - what you know
Illocutionary Act
Prefix
Calque
Competence
16. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
Lexicon
Passive
17. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Transformations
Coded connotations
Syntax
Invention
18. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Phonetics
Cohesion
Diachronic
Four components of sounds
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Adjacency Pair
Metonymy
Social connotation
Clipping
20. Mental representation of a word
Metaphor
Illocutionary Act
Acronyms
Meaning
21. A new word
Prescriptive
Inflectional morpheme
Illocutionary Act
Neologism
22. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Borrowing
Kernel sentence
Universal Grammar
Neologism
23. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Prefix
Referent
Maxim of Quantity
24. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Semantics
Negation
Bound morphemes
25. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Utterance
Polyglot
Reflected connotation
26. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Polyglot
Signified
Deixis
Neologism
27. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Free morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
Illocutionary Act
Recursion
28. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Transformations
Syntax
Morphology
Presupposition
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Flouting
Compounding
Categorizations of Speech Acts
30. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Maxim of Manner
Derivational morpheme
Three types of articulations
Intonation
31. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Signifier
Transformations
International Phonetic Alphabet
32. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Derivation
Backformation
Metaphor
Semantics
33. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Syntax
Flouting
Locutionary Act
34. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Locutionary Act
Invention
Particle hopping
Negation
35. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Universal Grammar
Invention
Blends
Coherence
36. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Homonyms
Synchronic
Descriptive
Prefix
37. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Ambiguity
Archaism
Backformation
Diachronic
38. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Phoneme
Metaphor
Categorizations of Speech Acts
39. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Denotation
Borrowing
Morpheme
40. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Calque
Pragmatics
Inflectional morpheme
Synchronic
41. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Prescriptive
Borrowing
Maxim of Manner
Inference
42. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Prescriptive
Inference
Infix
Metonymy
43. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Coherence
Connotation
Semantic features
Clipping
44. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Question
Individual/Restricted connotation
Invention
45. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Maxim of quality
Shibboleth
Transformations
46. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Deictics
Calque
Synchronic
47. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Metaphor
Intonation
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
48. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Question
Free morphemes
Coded connotations
49. Deals with the sounds of a language
Backformation
Social connotation
Phonetics
Speech Act
50. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Morpheme
Passive
Universal Grammar
Competence