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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. Deals with how sentences are formed
Kernel sentence
Morpheme
Syntax
Descriptive
2. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Competence
Affective connotation
Utterance
Passive
3. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Metaphor
Collocative connotation
Transformations
Negation
4. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Free morphemes
Shibboleth
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
5. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Metonymy
Presupposition
Transformations
Three types of articulations
6. Meaning components
Performance
Semantic features
Metaphor
Affective connotation
7. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Pragmatics
Dative Movement
Blends
Transformations
8. Affix after the root
Suffix
Polyglot
Homonyms
Signifier
9. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Referent
Descriptive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Derivational morpheme
10. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Social connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coherence
Blends
11. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Reflected connotation
Metonymy
Polyglot
Derivational morpheme
12. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Bound morphemes
Acronyms
Invention
Four processes by which we produce sound
13. Affix before the root
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coded connotations
14. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Pragmatics
Affective connotation
Collocative connotation
15. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Acronyms
Invention
Maxim of Manner
16. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Syntax
Inflectional morpheme
Bound morphemes
Metonymy
17. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Dative Movement
Competence
Coherence
18. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Coded connotations
Bound morphemes
Universal Grammar
Recursion
19. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Suffix
Denotation
Suffix
Deixis
20. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Morphology
Calque
Acronyms
Cohesion
21. Affix in the middle of a word
Blends
Phonology
Infix
Individual/Restricted connotation
22. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Adjacency Pair
Morphology
Maxim of Quantity
Acronyms
23. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Collocative connotation
Derivation
Coded connotations
Dative Movement
24. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Passive
Polyglot
Signifier
Calque
25. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Free morphemes
Homonyms
Borrowing
Polyglot
26. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Homonyms
Calque
Calque
Free morphemes
27. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Maxim of relevance
Deictics
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
28. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Passive
Acronyms
Meaning
29. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Four components of sounds
Locutionary Act
Prescriptive
Coherence
30. The meaning derived from flouting
Dative Movement
Inflectional morpheme
Implicature
Connotation
31. A new word
Individual/Restricted connotation
Flouting
Neologism
Collocative connotation
32. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Deictics
Coded connotations
Locutionary Act
33. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Infix
Signified
Archaism
34. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Infix
Signifier
Synchronic
35. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Negation
Syntax
Coded connotations
Signifier
36. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Universal Grammar
Recursion
Derivational morpheme
37. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Speech Act
Phonology
Descriptive
38. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Syntax
Deixis
Language planning
Phoneme
39. A sentence in context
Semantic features
Derivation
Utterance
Universal Grammar
40. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Negation
Inflectional morpheme
Polyglot
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Descriptive
Individual/Restricted connotation
Diachronic
Social connotation
42. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Calque
Recursion
Competence
43. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Phoneme
Signified
Diachronic
Connotation
44. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Competence
Synchronic
Reflected connotation
Semantic features
45. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Shibboleth
Maxim of relevance
Compounding
Prescriptive
46. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Synchronic
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Speech Act
Truth value
47. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Question
Intonation
Maxim of Quantity
48. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Borrowing
Derivation
Presupposition
Truth value
49. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Intonation
Perlocutionary Act
Cohesion
50. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Cohesion
Morphology
Adjacency Pair