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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






2. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality






3. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






4. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






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






7. Mental representation of a word






8. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






9. The meaning of a sign






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






11. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






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






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






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






17. Affix after the root






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






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






20. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






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






22. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






23. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






24. The meaning of a sign






25. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






28. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






29. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






30. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






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






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






34. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






35. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






37. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






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






39. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






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






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






43. A word that has died out






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






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






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






47. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






48. Meaning components






49. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






50. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'