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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Affix in the middle of a word






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






3. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






4. Actually saying a word - what you can do






5. One who knows many languages






6. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






7. Affix before the root






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






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






10. The ability to produce language - what you know






11. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






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






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






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






15. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






17. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






18. A word that has died out






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






20. Affix in the middle of a word






21. Meaning components






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






23. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






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






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






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






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






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






29. Mental representation of a word






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






31. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






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






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






34. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






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






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






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






38. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






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






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






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






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






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






44. Mental representation of a word






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






46. Deals with how the sounds are organized






47. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






50. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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