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Linguistics Basics
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1. Affix before the root
Collocative connotation
Connotation
Prefix
Suffix
2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Free morphemes
Coherence
Particle hopping
Universal Grammar
3. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Maxim of Quantity
Connotation
Signified
Signifier
4. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Meaning
Presupposition
Context
Perlocutionary Act
5. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Inflectional morpheme
Dative Movement
Descriptive
Kernel sentence
6. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Shibboleth
Clipping
Negation
Borrowing
7. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Polyglot
Universal Grammar
Collocative connotation
Acronyms
8. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Meaning
Metaphor
Collocative connotation
Free morphemes
9. One who knows many languages
Sign
Blends
Bound morphemes
Polyglot
10. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Metonymy
Affective connotation
Syntax
Categorizations of Speech Acts
11. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Free morphemes
Kernel sentence
Polyglot
Particle hopping
12. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Presupposition
Prefix
Individual/Restricted connotation
Blends
13. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Intonation
Signified
Sign
14. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Locutionary Act
Acronyms
Acronyms
15. Affix before the root
Derivational morpheme
Prefix
Referent
Derivation
16. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Affective connotation
Cohesion
Acronyms
17. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Derivation
Descriptive
Derivational morpheme
Collocative connotation
18. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Recursion
Morpheme
Signified
Borrowing
19. The meaning derived from flouting
Performance
Three types of articulations
Particle hopping
Implicature
20. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Perlocutionary Act
Signified
Metonymy
Transformations
21. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Invention
Calque
Ambiguity
Performance
22. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Performance
Idioms
Dative Movement
23. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Utterance
Inference
Metaphor
Context
24. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Social connotation
Blends
Illocutionary Act
Synchronic
25. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Metonymy
Kernel sentence
Illocutionary Act
Idioms
26. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Maxim of relevance
Syntax
International Phonetic Alphabet
Flouting
27. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Context
Minimal pair
Inference
Homonyms
28. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Derivation
Idioms
Morphology
Perlocutionary Act
29. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Social connotation
Recursion
Inflectional morpheme
Utterance
30. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Lexicon
Inflectional morpheme
Borrowing
Question
31. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Linguistics
Maxim of Quantity
Language planning
Passive
32. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Semantics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Borrowing
Prefix
33. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Shibboleth
Denotation
Descriptive
34. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Passive
Three types of articulations
Recursion
35. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Coherence
Dative Movement
Context
36. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Acronyms
Phonology
Derivation
Idioms
37. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Maxim of quality
Semantic features
Shibboleth
38. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Presupposition
Deictics
Calque
Metonymy
39. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Free morphemes
Linguistics
Homonyms
Inference
40. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Flouting
Lexicon
Truth value
41. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Denotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonology
Implicature
42. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Calque
Syntax
Perlocutionary Act
Diachronic
43. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Perlocutionary Act
Meaning
Truth value
Linguistics
44. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Prescriptive
Invention
Neologism
45. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Polyglot
Connotation
Metaphor
Categorizations of Speech Acts
46. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Minimal pair
Metonymy
Categorizations of Speech Acts
47. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
Semantics
Neologism
48. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Phonetics
Polyglot
Illocutionary Act
Ambiguity
49. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Calque
Suffix
Descriptive
50. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Maxim of relevance
Idioms
Free morphemes
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