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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






2. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






3. The rise and fall of sentences






4. Deals with the sounds of a language






5. The ability to produce language - what you know






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






7. The science that studies language






8. The science that studies language






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






10. A single sound. K - d - t - e






11. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






12. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






13. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






14. The meaning of a sign






15. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






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






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






20. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






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






22. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






24. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






25. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






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






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






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






29. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






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






31. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning






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






33. Actually saying a word - what you can do






34. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






35. Deals with how sentences are formed






36. Mental representation of a word






37. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






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






40. A word that has died out






41. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






43. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






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






45. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






46. A word that has died out






47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






48. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






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






50. The situation in which a sentence is uttered