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Linguistics Basics
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1. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Universal Grammar
Truth value
Compounding
Perlocutionary Act
2. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Particle hopping
Infix
Three types of articulations
Descriptive
3. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Recursion
Three types of articulations
Neologism
Shibboleth
4. Affix before the root
International Phonetic Alphabet
Deixis
Prefix
Signifier
5. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Infix
Signifier
Adjacency Pair
Neologism
6. A word that has died out
Affective connotation
Archaism
Performance
Maxim of quality
7. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Four components of sounds
Individual/Restricted connotation
Signifier
8. The meaning derived from flouting
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Implicature
Idioms
Minimal pair
9. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Speech Act
Affective connotation
Language planning
Semantics
10. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Bound morphemes
Morphology
Performance
Pragmatics
11. Deals with how sentences are formed
Borrowing
Free morphemes
Cohesion
Syntax
12. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Phonetics
Idioms
Inference
Passive
13. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Implicature
Semantic features
Maxim of Quantity
Flouting
14. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Question
International Phonetic Alphabet
Denotation
Synchronic
15. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Manner
Truth value
16. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Negation
Clipping
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Context
17. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Backformation
Phoneme
Prefix
Shibboleth
18. One who knows many languages
Three types of articulations
Derivation
Polyglot
Recursion
19. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Derivational morpheme
Prescriptive
Universal Grammar
Speech Act
20. A new word
Neologism
Coherence
Connotation
Semantic features
21. Mental representation of a word
Illocutionary Act
Truth value
Inflectional morpheme
Meaning
22. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Morphology
Collocative connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Lexicon
23. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Language planning
Metonymy
Descriptive
Morpheme
24. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Context
Homonyms
Particle hopping
25. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Borrowing
Four processes by which we produce sound
Connotation
Minimal pair
26. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Metonymy
Passive
Illocutionary Act
Idioms
27. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Denotation
Descriptive
Ambiguity
Locutionary Act
28. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Borrowing
Three types of articulations
Dative Movement
29. Affix after the root
Maxim of Quantity
Suffix
Passive
Prescriptive
30. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Reflected connotation
Backformation
Connotation
Denotation
31. The science that studies language
Collocative connotation
Signifier
Reflected connotation
Linguistics
32. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
Blends
33. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Bound morphemes
Recursion
Maxim of quality
Denotation
34. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Locutionary Act
Speech Act
Calque
Acronyms
35. The rise and fall of sentences
Particle hopping
Intonation
Affective connotation
Speech Act
36. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Calque
Passive
Phoneme
37. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
Performance
Competence
38. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Recursion
Prefix
Ambiguity
Clipping
39. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Phonology
Borrowing
Minimal pair
Acronyms
40. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Lexicon
Recursion
Four components of sounds
Four processes by which we produce sound
41. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Phoneme
Intonation
Pragmatics
42. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Derivation
Affective connotation
Meaning
Idioms
43. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Neologism
Backformation
Maxim of Manner
44. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Metaphor
Phoneme
Negation
Synchronic
45. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Homonyms
Deictics
Universal Grammar
Compounding
46. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Social connotation
Diachronic
Phoneme
Homonyms
47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Individual/Restricted connotation
Kernel sentence
Maxim of relevance
Sign
48. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Four components of sounds
Maxim of Manner
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
49. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Derivational morpheme
Bound morphemes
Kernel sentence
Four components of sounds
50. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Particle hopping
Implicature
Metaphor
Free morphemes
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