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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. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Metonymy
Individual/Restricted connotation
Question
Ambiguity
2. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Denotation
Morpheme
Derivational morpheme
Descriptive
3. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Metaphor
Coded connotations
Kernel sentence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
4. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Ambiguity
Lexicon
Prefix
Reflected connotation
5. A sentence in context
Idioms
Four components of sounds
Utterance
Sign
6. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Descriptive
Coherence
Prescriptive
Perlocutionary Act
7. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Deixis
Ambiguity
Kernel sentence
Phonology
8. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Lexicon
Infix
Connotation
Phoneme
9. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Context
Calque
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
10. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Speech Act
Passive
Social connotation
11. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Performance
Neologism
Compounding
Particle hopping
12. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Connotation
Maxim of Manner
Suffix
13. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Calque
Speech Act
Competence
14. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Presupposition
Locutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
Synchronic
15. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Descriptive
Metaphor
Calque
Deictics
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Polyglot
Pragmatics
Dative Movement
17. Meaning components
Compounding
Performance
Performance
Semantic features
18. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Sign
Neologism
Particle hopping
19. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Linguistics
Syntax
Homonyms
Deictics
20. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Inference
Polyglot
Clipping
Signifier
21. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Passive
Connotation
Presupposition
Four processes by which we produce sound
22. Deals with how sentences are formed
Performance
Neologism
Syntax
Coherence
23. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Morphology
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
24. A word that has died out
Derivational morpheme
Archaism
Maxim of quality
Truth value
25. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Coherence
Inflectional morpheme
Collocative connotation
Context
26. Meaning components
Metaphor
Utterance
Prefix
Semantic features
27. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of quality
Pragmatics
Cohesion
Coherence
28. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Infix
Bound morphemes
Particle hopping
Recursion
29. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Coherence
Suffix
Neologism
Free morphemes
30. The rise and fall of sentences
Diachronic
Deictics
Intonation
Archaism
31. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Maxim of quality
Coded connotations
Context
Implicature
32. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Syntax
Deixis
Acronyms
33. The meaning derived from flouting
Intonation
Dative Movement
Implicature
Polyglot
34. Affix before the root
Inference
Clipping
Prefix
Metaphor
35. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Archaism
Flouting
Borrowing
Clipping
36. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Idioms
Denotation
Individual/Restricted connotation
37. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Dative Movement
Deixis
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Idioms
38. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Dative Movement
Affective connotation
Transformations
International Phonetic Alphabet
39. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Phonetics
Three types of articulations
Utterance
40. Deals with the sounds of a language
Descriptive
Speech Act
Utterance
Phonetics
41. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Perlocutionary Act
Question
Synchronic
42. A word that has died out
Archaism
Bound morphemes
Prefix
Competence
43. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Truth value
Deictics
Shibboleth
Performance
44. An utterance produced by a speaker
Synchronic
Maxim of quality
Speech Act
Particle hopping
45. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Utterance
Infix
Metaphor
46. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Presupposition
Utterance
Signifier
Prescriptive
47. The meaning of a sign
Adjacency Pair
Morphology
Signified
Flouting
48. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Metonymy
Recursion
Metaphor
49. A new word
Free morphemes
Recursion
Neologism
Intonation
50. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Derivation
Blends
Ambiguity
Particle hopping