English IV Unit 4 Test: Semantics – Flashcards
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Speech capability differentiates man from animal.
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true
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King Psammetichos decided that Egyptian was older than Phyrgian because of his experiment with two babies.
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false
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If you are right-handed, the right side of your brain controls your cognitive and motor skills
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false
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Noah Webster apparently believed in God
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true
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athens dialect
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attic
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legendary creator of the incas
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viracocha
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isolated two babies from speech
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psammetichos
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The dialects spoken in Greece before the Peloponnesian War were: _____.
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attic, achaean, doric
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Three languages spoken by many Palestinians in the time of Christ are Koine Greek, Aramaic, and
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latin
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The first hypothesis described human language originating from animal sound imitations and then eventually developing into human language. The second regards human language originating from exclamations, and the third describes language originating from work chants.
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Briefly describe the three hypotheses formulated by 19th Century-evolutionists in an effort to explain the origin of human language.
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variation of a kernel sentence
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transform
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lays down rules, dictates
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prescriptive
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study of word forms
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morphology
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simplest form of a sentence
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kernel sentence
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words in characteristic sequence
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paradigm
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developed transformational grammar
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Noah Chomsky
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a class of words in structural linguistics
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interrogative
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false idea or belief
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fallacy
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a form of a noun or pronoun
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case
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What are the three types of fallacies that structural linguists find in traditional grammar?
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normative, semantic, logical
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According to Noah Webster, the ________ language is not as old as the Syrian or Egyptian languages.
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hebrew
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It originated from the New Testament, and was spread by Alexander the Great over the lands he conquered.
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Koine Greek origin
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phase structure rule
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PSR
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semantics and literary criticism
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I. A. Richards
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originator of transformational grammar
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Noah Chomsky
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relationship of one part of a word to another part of a word
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morphology
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morphological classification
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determiner
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relationships among words in a sentence
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syntax
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theory of general semantics
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Korzybski
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pattern of inflectional forms of a word
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paradigm
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study of word meanings
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semantics
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advanced the study of general semantics
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S. I. Hayakawa
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nerve center in the brain
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angular gyrus
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Frozen and formal levels of speech are identical.
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false
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S. I. Hayakawa founded generative grammar
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false
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Advertisers often change the meaning and usage of words.
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true
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Structural grammar became popular fifty years before transformational grammar
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false
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Ogden was a philosophical semanticist
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false
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Politicians and news reporters can change meaning by quoting things out of context
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true
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Structural grammar has now gained acceptance as an improvement over traditional grammar
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false
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mark case, number, and gender
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inflections
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Traditional grammar was originally patterned after _______ grammar
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latin
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Koine Greek means _____ Greek.
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common
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A suggested meaning of a word that differs from the dictionary meaning is called a:
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connotation
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Many Palestinians in the time of Christ spoke _____.
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aramaic
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The case in Latin that is used for direct objects is _____.
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accusative
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The smallest meaningful part of a word is called a(n) _____.
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morpheme
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_____ was a structural linguist.
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edward sapir
