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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Maxim of relevance
Sign
Truth value
Categorizations of Speech Acts
2. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Meaning
Bound morphemes
3. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Sign
Collocative connotation
Derivation
4. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Pragmatics
Denotation
Morphology
5. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Reflected connotation
Kernel sentence
Prefix
Blends
6. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Affective connotation
Affective connotation
Calque
7. The meaning of a sign
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of Manner
Signified
Polyglot
8. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Manner
Bound morphemes
Connotation
9. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Kernel sentence
Perlocutionary Act
Acronyms
Competence
10. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Linguistics
Prescriptive
Locutionary Act
Social connotation
11. Affix before the root
Prefix
Minimal pair
Shibboleth
Illocutionary Act
12. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
Truth value
Categorizations of Speech Acts
13. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Collocative connotation
Minimal pair
Referent
Particle hopping
14. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Truth value
Prefix
Context
Pragmatics
15. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Morphology
Presupposition
Implicature
16. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Neologism
Maxim of quality
Inflectional morpheme
17. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
International Phonetic Alphabet
Clipping
Calque
Semantics
18. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Descriptive
Backformation
19. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Signifier
Perlocutionary Act
Descriptive
20. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Passive
Signifier
Maxim of Quantity
21. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Presupposition
Social connotation
Maxim of relevance
Bound morphemes
22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Polyglot
Signifier
Flouting
Maxim of Quantity
23. The rise and fall of sentences
Lexicon
Adjacency Pair
Metonymy
Intonation
24. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Idioms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Deixis
25. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Maxim of Manner
Idioms
Adjacency Pair
Semantic features
26. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Question
Negation
Cohesion
27. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Compounding
Cohesion
Derivation
Metaphor
28. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Polyglot
Homonyms
Maxim of quality
29. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Suffix
Coherence
Implicature
30. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Deixis
Prescriptive
Locutionary Act
Homonyms
31. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Social connotation
Idioms
Calque
Compounding
32. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Lexicon
Speech Act
Illocutionary Act
33. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Transformations
Flouting
Speech Act
Maxim of Manner
34. Meaning components
Acronyms
Synchronic
Negation
Semantic features
35. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Backformation
Semantics
Adjacency Pair
Perlocutionary Act
36. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Dative Movement
Derivational morpheme
Diachronic
37. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Maxim of Manner
Free morphemes
Borrowing
Adjacency Pair
38. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Maxim of Manner
Derivation
Calque
Intonation
39. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Connotation
Compounding
Infix
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Phoneme
Affective connotation
Meaning
Maxim of Manner
41. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Prescriptive
Descriptive
Performance
Morpheme
42. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Locutionary Act
Metonymy
Particle hopping
Acronyms
43. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Free morphemes
Adjacency Pair
Denotation
Connotation
44. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Semantics
Reflected connotation
Morpheme
Infix
45. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Infix
Presupposition
Metonymy
Descriptive
46. Affix after the root
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Denotation
Suffix
47. The science that studies language
Implicature
Three types of articulations
Linguistics
Intonation
48. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Dative Movement
Collocative connotation
Semantics
49. The ability to produce language - what you know
Intonation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Deictics
Competence
50. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Derivation
Universal Grammar
Minimal pair
Coded connotations