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Linguistics Basics
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1. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Four components of sounds
Morpheme
Semantic features
Shibboleth
2. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Free morphemes
Speech Act
Particle hopping
Morphology
3. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Particle hopping
Morphology
Lexicon
4. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Locutionary Act
Perlocutionary Act
Clipping
Derivation
5. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Signified
Phonology
International Phonetic Alphabet
Clipping
6. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Perlocutionary Act
Prescriptive
Particle hopping
7. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Borrowing
Diachronic
Maxim of relevance
Collocative connotation
8. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Pragmatics
Descriptive
Social connotation
Acronyms
9. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Reflected connotation
Social connotation
Affective connotation
10. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Lexicon
Neologism
Semantics
Competence
11. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Synchronic
Recursion
Question
Four components of sounds
12. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Presupposition
Homonyms
Phonetics
13. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Kernel sentence
International Phonetic Alphabet
Metaphor
Denotation
14. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Acronyms
Intonation
Bound morphemes
Transformations
15. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Clipping
Metaphor
Prefix
Connotation
16. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Free morphemes
Reflected connotation
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Quantity
17. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Metaphor
Truth value
Minimal pair
Backformation
18. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Suffix
Diachronic
Utterance
Passive
19. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
Ambiguity
Shibboleth
20. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Descriptive
Diachronic
Metonymy
21. Mental representation of a word
Phoneme
Sign
Meaning
Calque
22. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Polyglot
Suffix
Flouting
Synchronic
23. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Language planning
Denotation
Locutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
24. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Metonymy
Social connotation
Derivation
Phonology
25. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Question
Blends
Referent
Phoneme
26. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Connotation
Inference
Coherence
27. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Phoneme
Morpheme
Kernel sentence
28. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Transformations
Infix
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
29. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Metaphor
Maxim of quality
Three types of articulations
30. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Bound morphemes
Sign
Four components of sounds
Phonology
31. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Semantics
Borrowing
Idioms
Linguistics
32. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Deictics
Inflectional morpheme
Flouting
Derivational morpheme
33. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Idioms
Negation
Flouting
Infix
34. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Coherence
Meaning
Recursion
Universal Grammar
35. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Inference
Borrowing
Language planning
Invention
36. Affix before the root
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
Universal Grammar
Semantics
37. The rise and fall of sentences
Sign
Intonation
Infix
Bound morphemes
38. The overall meaning of a text
Synchronic
Maxim of Quantity
Coherence
Phoneme
39. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Deictics
Competence
Maxim of Manner
Collocative connotation
40. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Coherence
Intonation
Bound morphemes
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
41. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Flouting
Semantics
Syntax
Metaphor
42. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Morphology
Adjacency Pair
Signifier
Denotation
43. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Locutionary Act
Three types of articulations
Derivation
Truth value
44. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Recursion
Semantic features
Signified
45. A word that has died out
Implicature
Archaism
Backformation
Descriptive
46. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Diachronic
Individual/Restricted connotation
Calque
Maxim of Quantity
47. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Diachronic
Competence
Morpheme
Prescriptive
48. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Context
Maxim of relevance
Archaism
49. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Universal Grammar
Ambiguity
Truth value
Referent
50. A sentence in context
Utterance
Maxim of relevance
Bound morphemes
Coded connotations
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