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Linguistics Basics
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1. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Meaning
Flouting
International Phonetic Alphabet
Calque
2. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Morpheme
Signifier
Social connotation
3. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Passive
Cohesion
Phonology
Illocutionary Act
4. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Flouting
International Phonetic Alphabet
Question
Recursion
5. The science that studies language
Maxim of Quantity
Truth value
Linguistics
Descriptive
6. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Maxim of Manner
Language planning
Connotation
Derivational morpheme
7. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Calque
International Phonetic Alphabet
Free morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
8. A word that has died out
Particle hopping
Signifier
Reflected connotation
Archaism
9. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
International Phonetic Alphabet
Four components of sounds
Bound morphemes
Presupposition
10. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Maxim of Quantity
Coded connotations
Inference
Compounding
11. An utterance produced by a speaker
Minimal pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Referent
Speech Act
12. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Illocutionary Act
Reflected connotation
Maxim of quality
Phonetics
13. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Semantics
Calque
Flouting
Speech Act
14. Meaning components
Kernel sentence
Semantic features
Phonology
Context
15. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Flouting
Adjacency Pair
Dative Movement
Individual/Restricted connotation
16. Mental representation of a word
Diachronic
Implicature
Particle hopping
Meaning
17. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Phonetics
Flouting
Morphology
Polyglot
18. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Flouting
Linguistics
Reflected connotation
Metonymy
19. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Semantics
Calque
Derivation
Collocative connotation
20. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Linguistics
Cohesion
Archaism
21. The overall meaning of a text
Flouting
Infix
Coherence
Ambiguity
22. The ability to produce language - what you know
Polyglot
Shibboleth
Denotation
Competence
23. Affix before the root
Prefix
Free morphemes
Question
Syntax
24. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Collocative connotation
Synchronic
Suffix
Referent
25. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Cohesion
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
26. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Particle hopping
Truth value
Metaphor
Sign
27. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Four processes by which we produce sound
Language planning
Recursion
Metaphor
28. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Universal Grammar
Negation
Semantics
Perlocutionary Act
29. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Diachronic
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Borrowing
30. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Compounding
Inference
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
31. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Homonyms
Referent
Sign
Illocutionary Act
32. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Blends
Synchronic
Individual/Restricted connotation
Archaism
33. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Connotation
Morpheme
Speech Act
34. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Question
Synchronic
Prescriptive
Transformations
35. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Reflected connotation
Coherence
Cohesion
Invention
36. One who knows many languages
Transformations
Semantic features
Context
Polyglot
37. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Three types of articulations
Four components of sounds
Acronyms
Infix
38. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Synchronic
Morpheme
Meaning
Semantics
39. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
International Phonetic Alphabet
Negation
Connotation
Social connotation
40. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Transformations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Particle hopping
Signifier
41. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Deixis
Prescriptive
Invention
International Phonetic Alphabet
42. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Homonyms
Maxim of Manner
Prescriptive
Particle hopping
43. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Metonymy
Phonetics
Connotation
44. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Denotation
Ambiguity
Meaning
Illocutionary Act
45. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Invention
Phonetics
Question
Coded connotations
46. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Connotation
Backformation
Negation
Kernel sentence
47. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Transformations
Maxim of Quantity
Three types of articulations
Locutionary Act
48. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Presupposition
Prefix
Phonology
Locutionary Act
49. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Morphology
Denotation
Reflected connotation
Four components of sounds
50. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Universal Grammar
Language planning
Connotation
Transformations
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