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Linguistics Basics
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1. Deals with the sounds of a language
Compounding
Reflected connotation
Illocutionary Act
Phonetics
2. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Inference
International Phonetic Alphabet
Particle hopping
3. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Cohesion
Pragmatics
International Phonetic Alphabet
4. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Deictics
Diachronic
Performance
Clipping
5. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Phonology
Prefix
Derivation
Reflected connotation
6. A word that has died out
Four processes by which we produce sound
Deictics
Archaism
Phoneme
7. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Minimal pair
Compounding
Signified
8. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Passive
Flouting
Speech Act
Backformation
9. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Linguistics
Context
Morphology
Perlocutionary Act
10. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Deixis
Kernel sentence
Recursion
11. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Three types of articulations
Four components of sounds
Individual/Restricted connotation
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Metaphor
Linguistics
Social connotation
Speech Act
13. Affix after the root
Pragmatics
Prescriptive
Idioms
Suffix
14. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Cohesion
Prefix
Particle hopping
15. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Derivation
Referent
Morphology
Language planning
16. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Borrowing
Derivation
Inflectional morpheme
Free morphemes
17. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Utterance
Transformations
18. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Derivational morpheme
Phoneme
Free morphemes
19. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Speech Act
Syntax
Maxim of Manner
Coded connotations
20. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Negation
Backformation
21. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Deixis
Coded connotations
Borrowing
22. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Implicature
Descriptive
Phonetics
23. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Four processes by which we produce sound
Morpheme
Transformations
24. Affix before the root
Ambiguity
Coded connotations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prefix
25. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Referent
Semantic features
Coded connotations
Invention
26. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Implicature
Sign
Backformation
Phonology
27. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Speech Act
Maxim of relevance
Illocutionary Act
Ambiguity
28. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Infix
Dative Movement
Connotation
Presupposition
29. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Perlocutionary Act
Suffix
Denotation
Collocative connotation
30. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Passive
Speech Act
Deixis
31. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Archaism
Locutionary Act
Cohesion
Acronyms
32. Affix after the root
Affective connotation
Invention
Suffix
Signifier
33. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Derivation
Implicature
International Phonetic Alphabet
Performance
34. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Semantic features
Four processes by which we produce sound
International Phonetic Alphabet
Denotation
35. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Suffix
Affective connotation
Semantics
Signified
36. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Question
Metonymy
Coded connotations
37. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Question
Phoneme
Maxim of Quantity
Synchronic
38. An utterance produced by a speaker
Cohesion
Polyglot
Speech Act
Shibboleth
39. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Context
Morphology
Diachronic
Language planning
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Signifier
41. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Bound morphemes
Collocative connotation
Derivational morpheme
Universal Grammar
42. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
Morpheme
Signifier
43. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Three types of articulations
Archaism
Borrowing
Transformations
44. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Coded connotations
Deictics
Four processes by which we produce sound
Social connotation
45. One who knows many languages
Sign
Deixis
Polyglot
Compounding
46. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Speech Act
Neologism
Metaphor
Coherence
47. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Inflectional morpheme
Semantic features
International Phonetic Alphabet
Homonyms
48. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Phoneme
Metaphor
Descriptive
Deictics
49. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Passive
Social connotation
Clipping
50. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Locutionary Act
Context
Social connotation
Maxim of quality
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