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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)






2. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






3. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






4. Affix before the root






5. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






6. A word that has died out






7. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






8. The meaning derived from flouting






9. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






11. Deals with how sentences are formed






12. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






13. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






14. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






15. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






16. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






17. A single sound. K - d - t - e






18. One who knows many languages






19. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






20. A new word






21. Mental representation of a word






22. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)






23. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






25. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






26. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






27. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






29. Affix after the root






30. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






31. The science that studies language






32. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






33. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






34. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)






35. The rise and fall of sentences






36. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






37. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






38. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






39. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)






40. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






41. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






42. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






43. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






44. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence






45. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)






46. A single sound. K - d - t - e






47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






48. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






49. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






50. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)







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