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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






2. One who knows many languages






3. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






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






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






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






7. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words






8. Affix in the middle of a word






9. Mental representation of a word






10. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)






11. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






12. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






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






15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






16. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly






17. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes






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






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






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






21. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






22. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






24. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






25. One who knows many languages






26. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






27. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






28. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






29. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






30. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






31. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






32. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






34. An utterance produced by a speaker






35. Affix before the root






36. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






37. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






39. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






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






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






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