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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






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






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






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






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






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






7. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






9. A new word






10. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






11. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






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






15. Actually saying a word - what you can do






16. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






19. Deals with how the sounds are organized






20. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






21. Mental representation of a word






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






23. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






24. The ability to produce language - what you know






25. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






28. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






29. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






31. Deals with the sounds of a language






32. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






34. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






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






36. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






37. The meaning derived from flouting






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






39. One who knows many languages






40. Affix in the middle of a word






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






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






43. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly






44. Affix after the root






45. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






47. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






48. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)






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






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







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