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Linguistics Basics
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1. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Denotation
Derivation
Acronyms
Passive
2. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Infix
Idioms
Question
3. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Morphology
Maxim of relevance
Coherence
Pragmatics
4. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Shibboleth
Deixis
Question
Morphology
5. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Morphology
Prefix
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prescriptive
6. An utterance produced by a speaker
Morpheme
Signifier
Social connotation
Speech Act
7. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Perlocutionary Act
Semantics
Truth value
Free morphemes
8. Mental representation of a word
Idioms
Utterance
Meaning
Connotation
9. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Kernel sentence
Descriptive
10. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
Minimal pair
Calque
11. The meaning of a sign
Synchronic
Acronyms
Signified
Maxim of quality
12. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Context
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Ambiguity
13. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Maxim of Quantity
Denotation
Negation
14. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Synchronic
Compounding
Coherence
Transformations
15. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Phonetics
Maxim of Manner
Sign
Kernel sentence
16. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Clipping
Homonyms
Phonology
Referent
17. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Signifier
Lexicon
Maxim of Manner
Pragmatics
18. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Implicature
Truth value
Borrowing
Bound morphemes
19. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Prescriptive
Language planning
Social connotation
Borrowing
20. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Collocative connotation
Minimal pair
Syntax
21. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Calque
Signifier
Phonetics
Performance
22. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Truth value
Four components of sounds
Speech Act
Dative Movement
23. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Semantics
Sign
Phonology
24. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coded connotations
25. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Pragmatics
Social connotation
Maxim of relevance
Inference
26. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Prefix
Phoneme
Recursion
Ambiguity
27. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Negation
Coherence
Descriptive
Metonymy
28. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
Competence
Clipping
29. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Derivational morpheme
Adjacency Pair
Pragmatics
30. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Context
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
Semantic features
31. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Morphology
Referent
Phonology
Derivational morpheme
32. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Passive
Four processes by which we produce sound
Lexicon
Illocutionary Act
33. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Individual/Restricted connotation
Metonymy
Linguistics
Presupposition
34. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Synchronic
Truth value
Suffix
35. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Signifier
Metaphor
Diachronic
36. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Invention
Particle hopping
Three types of articulations
37. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Presupposition
Sign
Denotation
Transformations
38. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Kernel sentence
Shibboleth
Deixis
Competence
39. Affix before the root
Prefix
Reflected connotation
Flouting
Coherence
40. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Pragmatics
Lexicon
Context
Denotation
41. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Deixis
Synchronic
Flouting
42. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Homonyms
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
Deictics
43. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Deictics
Connotation
Intonation
Derivation
44. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Truth value
Four components of sounds
Inference
Prefix
45. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Suffix
Free morphemes
Adjacency Pair
Recursion
46. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Three types of articulations
Meaning
Context
47. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Inference
Lexicon
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
48. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Deictics
International Phonetic Alphabet
Performance
Minimal pair
49. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Acronyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Infix
50. Deals with the sounds of a language
Polyglot
Minimal pair
Phonetics
Free morphemes
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