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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. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Free morphemes
Acronyms
Descriptive
2. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Implicature
Descriptive
Bound morphemes
Ambiguity
3. The meaning derived from flouting
Cohesion
Implicature
Negation
Inference
4. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Dative Movement
Recursion
Metaphor
Borrowing
5. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Metaphor
Lexicon
Prefix
Clipping
6. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Backformation
Prescriptive
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
7. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Affective connotation
Ambiguity
Phonetics
Collocative connotation
8. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Borrowing
Cohesion
Inference
Calque
9. Meaning components
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
Borrowing
Recursion
10. Deals with how sentences are formed
Referent
Connotation
Polyglot
Syntax
11. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Maxim of Manner
Sign
Locutionary Act
12. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Maxim of quality
Particle hopping
Cohesion
13. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Cohesion
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
14. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Speech Act
Minimal pair
Prefix
Phonetics
15. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Utterance
Diachronic
Passive
Morphology
16. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Homonyms
Phonology
Implicature
Prescriptive
17. Affix before the root
Suffix
Invention
Coded connotations
Prefix
18. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Dative Movement
Locutionary Act
Semantics
Maxim of relevance
19. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Utterance
Derivation
Sign
Prefix
20. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Implicature
Acronyms
Social connotation
Presupposition
21. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Adjacency Pair
Synchronic
Ambiguity
Prescriptive
22. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Truth value
Dative Movement
Deictics
23. Deals with the sounds of a language
Performance
Phonetics
Three types of articulations
Free morphemes
24. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Prefix
Acronyms
Phonology
Phoneme
25. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Idioms
Performance
Inference
26. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Acronyms
Question
Signified
Denotation
27. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Denotation
Affective connotation
Intonation
Derivational morpheme
28. Mental representation of a word
Clipping
Universal Grammar
Social connotation
Meaning
29. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Connotation
Language planning
Neologism
30. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Maxim of quality
Synchronic
Invention
31. Deals with how sentences are formed
Backformation
Syntax
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Locutionary Act
32. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Linguistics
Language planning
Suffix
Question
33. Affix in the middle of a word
Polyglot
Ambiguity
Descriptive
Infix
34. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Maxim of Manner
Maxim of quality
Maxim of Quantity
35. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Four processes by which we produce sound
Phonology
Invention
36. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Presupposition
Semantics
Maxim of relevance
Recursion
37. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Inflectional morpheme
Deictics
Compounding
Question
38. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Linguistics
Lexicon
Free morphemes
Denotation
39. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Suffix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Free morphemes
40. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Ambiguity
Polyglot
Cohesion
41. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Sign
Negation
Referent
Denotation
42. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Prescriptive
Phonetics
Idioms
Inference
43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Particle hopping
Derivational morpheme
Morpheme
Dative Movement
44. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Derivation
Maxim of relevance
Reflected connotation
45. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Shibboleth
Performance
Infix
Four processes by which we produce sound
46. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Calque
Borrowing
Cohesion
Categorizations of Speech Acts
47. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Blends
Maxim of quality
48. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Archaism
Homonyms
Flouting
Neologism
49. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Maxim of Manner
Neologism
Synchronic
Suffix
50. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Derivational morpheme
Prescriptive
Social connotation
Passive