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Linguistics Basics
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1. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Synchronic
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
Free morphemes
2. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Borrowing
Acronyms
Coherence
Sign
3. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Invention
Signified
Signifier
4. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Maxim of quality
Connotation
Speech Act
Meaning
5. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Perlocutionary Act
Morphology
Calque
6. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Calque
Presupposition
Implicature
7. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Particle hopping
Semantic features
Adjacency Pair
8. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Neologism
Compounding
Metaphor
9. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Pragmatics
Referent
Connotation
Maxim of quality
10. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Cohesion
Deictics
Coherence
Locutionary Act
11. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Maxim of relevance
Polyglot
Affective connotation
Coded connotations
12. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantics
Truth value
Invention
13. The ability to produce language - what you know
Sign
Competence
Calque
Presupposition
14. A new word
Neologism
Maxim of quality
Phonetics
Suffix
15. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Truth value
Universal Grammar
Presupposition
16. Deals with how sentences are formed
Dative Movement
Shibboleth
Syntax
Neologism
17. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Kernel sentence
Utterance
Ambiguity
Derivational morpheme
18. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Signifier
Backformation
Coded connotations
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Referent
Question
Collocative connotation
20. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Maxim of quality
Lexicon
Signified
21. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Morphology
Inflectional morpheme
Illocutionary Act
Utterance
22. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Competence
Acronyms
Context
Maxim of quality
23. A new word
Affective connotation
Diachronic
Neologism
Presupposition
24. The meaning of a sign
Presupposition
Prefix
Signified
Truth value
25. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Referent
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
Transformations
26. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Blends
International Phonetic Alphabet
27. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Morpheme
Backformation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Adjacency Pair
28. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Utterance
Implicature
Affective connotation
Semantics
29. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Referent
Derivation
Blends
Neologism
30. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Connotation
Lexicon
Truth value
Blends
31. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Diachronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metonymy
32. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Synchronic
Particle hopping
International Phonetic Alphabet
33. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Flouting
Infix
Performance
Metaphor
34. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Implicature
Neologism
Invention
Derivation
35. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
International Phonetic Alphabet
Borrowing
Language planning
Question
36. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Deixis
Coded connotations
Kernel sentence
Signifier
37. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Invention
Reflected connotation
Derivation
Negation
38. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Performance
Morpheme
Maxim of relevance
Polyglot
39. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Adjacency Pair
Phoneme
Transformations
Infix
40. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Signifier
Homonyms
Bound morphemes
Deixis
41. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Four processes by which we produce sound
Connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Passive
42. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Homonyms
Suffix
Semantics
43. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Compounding
Signifier
Denotation
Derivational morpheme
44. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Descriptive
Cohesion
Four processes by which we produce sound
Intonation
45. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Four processes by which we produce sound
Compounding
Kernel sentence
Minimal pair
46. Affix after the root
Flouting
Archaism
Deictics
Suffix
47. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Four components of sounds
Dative Movement
Individual/Restricted connotation
Deictics
48. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Maxim of quality
Linguistics
Language planning
Cohesion
49. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Lexicon
Backformation
Performance
50. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Intonation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Sign
Utterance
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