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Linguistics Basics
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1. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Language planning
Illocutionary Act
2. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Maxim of Manner
Synchronic
Competence
3. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Metaphor
Signified
Clipping
4. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Signifier
Phonetics
Utterance
5. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Transformations
Implicature
Bound morphemes
6. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Shibboleth
Metaphor
Invention
7. Affix before the root
Collocative connotation
Prefix
Cohesion
Maxim of quality
8. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coded connotations
Descriptive
9. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Descriptive
Compounding
Archaism
Homonyms
10. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Derivation
Illocutionary Act
Affective connotation
11. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Inference
Deictics
Illocutionary Act
Prescriptive
12. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Inflectional morpheme
Referent
Speech Act
Lexicon
13. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Clipping
Speech Act
Polyglot
14. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Four processes by which we produce sound
Passive
Kernel sentence
15. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Question
Connotation
Free morphemes
Phonetics
16. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Negation
Invention
Minimal pair
Categorizations of Speech Acts
17. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Connotation
Inference
Transformations
18. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
Metonymy
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
19. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Coherence
Question
Minimal pair
Perlocutionary Act
20. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Maxim of Quantity
Derivation
Truth value
Collocative connotation
21. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Compounding
Denotation
Infix
Backformation
22. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Presupposition
Clipping
Semantic features
23. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Phonetics
Performance
Meaning
Clipping
24. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Clipping
Prefix
Adjacency Pair
25. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Neologism
Referent
Metonymy
26. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Performance
Archaism
International Phonetic Alphabet
27. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Competence
Cohesion
Perlocutionary Act
28. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Perlocutionary Act
Homonyms
Passive
29. The meaning of a sign
Derivation
Semantic features
Suffix
Signified
30. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Inflectional morpheme
Affective connotation
Clipping
31. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Dative Movement
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Meaning
Polyglot
32. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Kernel sentence
Sign
Dative Movement
Borrowing
33. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Pragmatics
Invention
Acronyms
Suffix
34. Affix after the root
Shibboleth
Dative Movement
Truth value
Suffix
35. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Implicature
Morpheme
Competence
Bound morphemes
36. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Negation
Social connotation
Sign
Maxim of Manner
37. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Perlocutionary Act
Flouting
Adjacency Pair
Context
38. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Linguistics
Phonetics
Shibboleth
Three types of articulations
39. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Invention
Utterance
Cohesion
40. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Infix
Prescriptive
Coded connotations
41. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Cohesion
Idioms
Question
Semantics
42. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Three types of articulations
Lexicon
Particle hopping
Dative Movement
43. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Kernel sentence
Locutionary Act
Maxim of quality
Maxim of Quantity
44. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Borrowing
Minimal pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Homonyms
45. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Sign
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Phoneme
46. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Ambiguity
Three types of articulations
International Phonetic Alphabet
47. A sentence in context
Implicature
Compounding
Utterance
Collocative connotation
48. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Recursion
Maxim of quality
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
49. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Prefix
Intonation
Collocative connotation
50. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Individual/Restricted connotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coherence
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