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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Infix
Phonetics
Implicature
2. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Truth value
Signifier
Affective connotation
3. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Derivation
Maxim of relevance
Clipping
4. Meaning components
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantic features
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Kernel sentence
5. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Coherence
Neologism
Truth value
Four processes by which we produce sound
6. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Context
Invention
Denotation
7. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Question
Derivational morpheme
Recursion
Clipping
8. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Negation
Morpheme
Maxim of quality
Cohesion
9. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Ambiguity
Borrowing
Free morphemes
Four components of sounds
10. Deals with how sentences are formed
Prefix
Illocutionary Act
Syntax
Deixis
11. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Flouting
Prescriptive
Connotation
12. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Synchronic
Four components of sounds
Referent
Polyglot
13. An utterance produced by a speaker
Perlocutionary Act
Maxim of quality
Speech Act
Maxim of Quantity
14. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Negation
Presupposition
Pragmatics
Derivation
15. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Cohesion
Maxim of Quantity
International Phonetic Alphabet
16. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Clipping
Derivational morpheme
Particle hopping
Phoneme
17. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Backformation
Speech Act
Homonyms
18. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Idioms
Maxim of relevance
Semantics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
19. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Competence
Competence
Cohesion
Metaphor
20. A new word
Individual/Restricted connotation
Implicature
Adjacency Pair
Neologism
21. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Kernel sentence
Deictics
Competence
22. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Denotation
Transformations
Performance
Cohesion
23. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Kernel sentence
Meaning
Derivation
24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Maxim of Manner
Sign
Syntax
Dative Movement
25. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Derivation
Invention
Illocutionary Act
Recursion
26. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Phoneme
Derivational morpheme
Sign
Maxim of Quantity
27. Affix before the root
Truth value
Speech Act
Coded connotations
Prefix
28. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Diachronic
Denotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
29. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Maxim of Manner
Utterance
Calque
Metaphor
30. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Borrowing
Kernel sentence
Adjacency Pair
31. The meaning derived from flouting
Collocative connotation
Derivational morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Implicature
32. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Metaphor
Four processes by which we produce sound
Connotation
Context
33. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Illocutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Blends
34. The ability to produce language - what you know
Presupposition
Semantics
Competence
Cohesion
35. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Social connotation
Sign
Denotation
Dative Movement
36. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Three types of articulations
Transformations
Linguistics
37. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Passive
Signified
Adjacency Pair
38. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Blends
Question
Perlocutionary Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
39. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Metonymy
Maxim of relevance
Phonology
Referent
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Speech Act
Competence
Derivation
Affective connotation
41. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Performance
Four components of sounds
Referent
Negation
42. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Derivation
Locutionary Act
Calque
Three types of articulations
43. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Coded connotations
Morpheme
Maxim of quality
Negation
44. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Morphology
Compounding
Inference
Cohesion
45. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Compounding
Performance
Truth value
46. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Deixis
Referent
Truth value
Semantics
47. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Suffix
Idioms
Prescriptive
48. The meaning of a sign
Competence
Signified
Descriptive
Backformation
49. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Suffix
Pragmatics
Referent
50. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Derivation
Question
Cohesion
Truth value