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Linguistics Basics
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1. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Maxim of relevance
Synchronic
Reflected connotation
2. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Free morphemes
Context
Illocutionary Act
3. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Prescriptive
Calque
Transformations
Connotation
4. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Coherence
Signified
Phonology
Universal Grammar
5. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Reflected connotation
Calque
Morphology
Utterance
6. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Language planning
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
Context
7. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Four components of sounds
Metaphor
Performance
Polyglot
8. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Truth value
Individual/Restricted connotation
Universal Grammar
Utterance
9. A word that has died out
Diachronic
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Archaism
10. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Sign
Referent
11. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Infix
Collocative connotation
Maxim of quality
12. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Three types of articulations
Deictics
Three types of articulations
13. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Sign
Dative Movement
Context
Polyglot
14. Deals with how sentences are formed
Referent
Phonology
Syntax
Dative Movement
15. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Prescriptive
Competence
Backformation
Locutionary Act
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Backformation
Compounding
Passive
Social connotation
17. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Referent
Question
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Bound morphemes
18. The rise and fall of sentences
Semantic features
Recursion
Competence
Intonation
19. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Phoneme
Language planning
Sign
20. Meaning components
Maxim of Quantity
Phonology
Free morphemes
Semantic features
21. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Phoneme
Transformations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Metonymy
22. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Neologism
Blends
Kernel sentence
23. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Maxim of quality
Free morphemes
Particle hopping
Negation
24. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Invention
Coded connotations
Borrowing
Maxim of quality
25. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Idioms
Cohesion
Context
Bound morphemes
26. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Social connotation
Particle hopping
Homonyms
Four components of sounds
27. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Sign
Blends
Pragmatics
Shibboleth
28. A sentence in context
Utterance
Phoneme
Minimal pair
Phonology
29. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Backformation
Maxim of Quantity
Collocative connotation
Universal Grammar
30. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Dative Movement
Question
Syntax
Denotation
31. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Diachronic
Metaphor
Morphology
Universal Grammar
32. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Maxim of Quantity
Blends
Clipping
Social connotation
33. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Morpheme
Utterance
Question
Illocutionary Act
34. The science that studies language
Maxim of Quantity
Linguistics
Context
Bound morphemes
35. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Maxim of quality
Prefix
Polyglot
36. The meaning derived from flouting
Categorizations of Speech Acts
International Phonetic Alphabet
Implicature
Cohesion
37. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Backformation
Presupposition
Coherence
Maxim of relevance
38. Affix before the root
Flouting
Signifier
Coherence
Prefix
39. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Coherence
Clipping
Ambiguity
40. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Bound morphemes
Archaism
Neologism
Collocative connotation
41. Deals with the sounds of a language
Phonetics
Derivational morpheme
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Utterance
42. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Passive
Phoneme
Signifier
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
43. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Maxim of Manner
Inflectional morpheme
Suffix
Homonyms
44. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Truth value
International Phonetic Alphabet
Semantics
Compounding
45. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Suffix
Derivational morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
Phonetics
46. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Deictics
Linguistics
Connotation
47. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Three types of articulations
Suffix
Social connotation
Compounding
48. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Linguistics
Presupposition
Three types of articulations
Ambiguity
49. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Backformation
Implicature
Neologism
Prescriptive
50. Affix after the root
Invention
Infix
Acronyms
Suffix
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