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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Affix before the root






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






3. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






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






6. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






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






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






11. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






12. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






13. Actually saying a word - what you can do






14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






15. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






16. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






17. A new word






18. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






19. Affix in the middle of a word






20. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






21. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






22. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)






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






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






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






26. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






27. Meaning components






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






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






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






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






32. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






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






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






35. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)






36. Deals with how the sounds are organized






37. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






38. One who knows many languages






39. A sentence in context






40. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






43. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






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






45. The ability to produce language - what you know






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






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






48. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






50. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)