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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A single sound. K - d - t - e






2. Mental representation of a word






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






4. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






5. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






7. The ability to produce language - what you know






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






9. A sentence in context






10. Meaning components






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






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






13. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






14. The rise and fall of sentences






15. The meaning of a sign






16. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






18. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






21. A word that has died out






22. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)






23. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






26. Meaning components






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






28. Affix before the root






29. Deals with how sentences are formed






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






31. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






34. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






35. A new word






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






37. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






39. Affix in the middle of a word






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






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






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






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






44. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






45. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts






46. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






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






50. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts