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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. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Morpheme
Phoneme
Synchronic
2. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Morpheme
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
3. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Connotation
Lexicon
Derivational morpheme
Shibboleth
4. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Free morphemes
Referent
Free morphemes
Neologism
5. Meaning components
Context
Semantic features
Three types of articulations
Prefix
6. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Adjacency Pair
Inference
Perlocutionary Act
Semantic features
7. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Synchronic
Inference
Denotation
Shibboleth
8. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Negation
Morpheme
Backformation
Four processes by which we produce sound
9. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Inflectional morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Flouting
Cohesion
10. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
International Phonetic Alphabet
Derivational morpheme
Transformations
Language planning
11. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Minimal pair
Three types of articulations
Connotation
12. The meaning derived from flouting
Maxim of quality
Utterance
Implicature
Compounding
13. Affix in the middle of a word
Lexicon
Backformation
Infix
Speech Act
14. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Implicature
Linguistics
Adjacency Pair
Deictics
15. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Context
Coded connotations
Diachronic
Adjacency Pair
16. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Suffix
Maxim of relevance
Diachronic
Implicature
17. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Language planning
Affective connotation
Descriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
18. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Derivation
Referent
Shibboleth
Implicature
19. A new word
Neologism
International Phonetic Alphabet
Descriptive
Flouting
20. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Deictics
Borrowing
21. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Backformation
Dative Movement
Syntax
22. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Compounding
Calque
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
23. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Sign
Maxim of quality
Adjacency Pair
Compounding
24. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Sign
Diachronic
Phonetics
25. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Adjacency Pair
Passive
Maxim of Manner
Synchronic
26. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Maxim of quality
Adjacency Pair
Truth value
Descriptive
27. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Backformation
Maxim of quality
Minimal pair
Maxim of Quantity
28. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Illocutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Inference
29. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Illocutionary Act
Neologism
Social connotation
Three types of articulations
30. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Context
Kernel sentence
Semantic features
Meaning
31. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Illocutionary Act
Presupposition
Prefix
32. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Context
Kernel sentence
Coded connotations
Semantic features
33. The ability to produce language - what you know
Coded connotations
Acronyms
Three types of articulations
Competence
34. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Compounding
Invention
Synchronic
35. An utterance produced by a speaker
Pragmatics
Speech Act
Transformations
Clipping
36. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Infix
Speech Act
Kernel sentence
Homonyms
37. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Free morphemes
Question
Affective connotation
Minimal pair
38. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Deixis
Maxim of Quantity
Intonation
Context
39. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Illocutionary Act
Bound morphemes
Lexicon
Presupposition
40. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Four components of sounds
Diachronic
Morphology
Denotation
41. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Context
Reflected connotation
Metaphor
Kernel sentence
42. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Metonymy
Three types of articulations
Intonation
43. The rise and fall of sentences
Truth value
Truth value
Intonation
Locutionary Act
44. A new word
Archaism
Acronyms
Backformation
Neologism
45. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Maxim of Quantity
Backformation
Signified
Three types of articulations
46. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Phonology
Three types of articulations
Utterance
47. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Lexicon
Compounding
Maxim of Manner
Three types of articulations
48. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Adjacency Pair
Referent
Truth value
Dative Movement
49. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Individual/Restricted connotation
Phoneme
Backformation
Deixis
50. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Negation
Diachronic
Ambiguity
Maxim of relevance