LING 2750 Midterm Part A
Sara Dickerman in "Eating Your Words" uses terms like "traffic jamming," "freshening-up," "branding," and "exoticizing" to describe different menu genre. Which of the following is "branding"?
"Six Hog Island sweetwater oyster," "Roasted King Family Farm chicken," "Wolfe Ranch quail," "Integration Acres goat cheese."
The first cookbook that was printed using moveable type appeared around
1475 CE
Writing was invented about: (BCE, CE)
3000 BCE
Which statement is NOT true?
A 1750 BCE an Akkadian tablet of recipes listed the ingredients and the order in which they should be added, as well as measurements and cooking times
What is the best definition of a genre?
A communicative event, spoken or written, with some conventionalized set of communicative goals
According to Deutscher, which claim is false?
All languages are equally complex
According to the research of Morton and then Ohala, which statement is NOT true?
Back vowels have a higher pitch
Ketchup is derived from a
Chinese Southern Min dialect word for fish sauce
Hugo Magnus, building on the ideas of Gladstone and Lazarus Geiger, argued that
Color blindness was a universal condition in ancient times
The etymology of the word ketchup was worked out by:
Editor of the OED James Murray
According to the experiment on grammatical gender in Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L., & Phillips, W. (2003).
German speakers use more "feminine" adjectives when they think of the word bridge
The word "guy" to mean "man" is derived from a real person called
Guido Fawkes
Deutscher discusses three thought experiments to show our color vocabulary is culturally determined. Which is NOT one of these thought experiments?
Holmgren's wool test for color blindness
According to Mark Dingemanse's blog which statement is NOT true about the research of Imai et al (2008)
Japanese, when describing pictures of people gargling, will tend to use more mimetics (ideophones) with adults than when they are describing the same scene to a child
According to Mark Dingemanse's blog which statement is NOT true about the research of Osaka & Osaka (2005)
Non-ideophonic real words for laughter had no effect on striatal reward areas
Discourse with a capital D refers to:
Not just language but also ways of behaving, interacting, thinking, valuing, that are part of a discourse
Which of the following statements is true?
Ordinary people believe that the relations between words and the world are NOT arbitrary
Which is NOT an argument put forward by Berlin and Kay in their 1969 book?
Physicists view the color spectrum as a continuous scale, but languages mark off different parts of this scale quite arbitrarily
Which statement is true?
Samoans linguistically distinguish smells that are cadaverine, putrescine and methane
Which of the following does Lakoff consider a major component of identity?
Sexual preference
Which sentence does NOT contain an anti-passive ergative?
Six people can be served with this dish
Which is a true statement about research findings on color words since Berlin and Kay?
Some languages have one color term for yellow, light green, and light blue
Which language has three words for the English "we"?
Tagalog
Which of the following sentences uses an intrinsic concept of space?
That's my uncle Danny standing on my mother's right
Which is NOT a true statement about Rivers study of the color vocabulary of the Torres Straits Murray Islanders?
The Islanders' word for "red," mamamaman, was derived from mam, the word for the spice "turmeric."
Which is the best definition of discourse?
The interaction of a reader or hearer in a particular social context with a particular socio-cultural knowledge and a linguistic text
The weak version of the Whorf hypothesis says that:
The language we speak influences the way we see the world but it doesn't mean that we cannot see the world in other ways.
According to Zwicky & Zwicky (1983), which statement about menu language is false?
The most expensive restaurants have the most descriptive language
Which of the following statements is true?
The sounds in the words smash, trash and clash are for English speakers icons of violent actions and movements
Which statement is true?
The spread of new immigrant foods after the 1850's was a major influence on the need for more detailed recipes
Which is NOT a true statement about foot (English), fod (Danish) and fot (Swedish)?
They are all non-Germanic languages
What did Boroditsky discover about the Kuuk Thaayore community in Australia?
They think of time as moving from east to west.
The Aslian language of Jahai has a...
a complex lexical set of olfactory stative verbs
Souza's study found that older Cantonese speakers had
a greater vocabulary for expressing proximal senses
According to Zwicky & Zwicky (1983), which is NOT an aspect of menu language?
absence of articles
What statement is NOT true? Ideophones...
always make use of reduplication as in pitter-patter and splish-splash
The word yad in Hebrew refers to what body part in English?
arm + hand
According to Lazarus Geiger, which color word is absent from the texts of biblical Hebrew, Indian Vedic poetry, Icelandic sagas and the Koran
blue
Which statement is true? In the early history of writing, most uses of writing were for:
commerce
Which of the following inexact food measurements actually varies in quantity according to the food item it is added to?
dollop
The Khoe languages of Botswana.....
have elaborate lexical sets of both taste and texture verbs
According to Zwicky & Zwicky (1983), which are the most common tasty adjectives used in menus?
hot and fresh
Kramsch uses onomatopoeic words like Whoops! Wow! And Whack! as examples of:
icons
Proto-Indo European or PIE
is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages
From 2002-2012 the number of published cookbooks...
jumped by 50%
Which is a true statement about writing? Writing is:
lexically and grammatically dense
Which of the following sets of words are cognates?
notte, nat, noč'
Aslian languages are spoken
on the south Malaysia peninsula
Which word is NOT derived from Norman French?
ox
Serves six, Feeds a family of six, Slices easily are all examples of
pro-drop
Which is a true statement about speaking? Speaking is:
redundant
Which of the following is NOT an ideophone?
singsong
Which was NOT mentioned in the lecture as a way that orate societies transmitted cultural knowledge
song
The fact that products with brand names containing front vowels as opposed to back vowels are perceived as smaller, lighter, milder, softer, etc is an example of:
sound symbolism
Deutscher examined the idea of complexity in three aspects of language. Which aspect of language was NOT discussed?
tense
Denotation refers to
the definitions of words that we can find in a dictionary
The linguistic relativity principle claims that:
the language we speak determines the way we think and behave
What is the best definition of etymology?
the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history
Which word is derived from Proto-Indo-European?
water
What does corn mean in British English
wheat
