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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






2. An utterance produced by a speaker






3. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






4. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






6. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






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






8. Affix before the root






9. A word that has died out






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






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






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






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






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






15. The overall meaning of a text






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






17. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






20. A sentence in context






21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






23. Deals with the sounds of a language






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






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






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






27. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






29. Affix in the middle of a word






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






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






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






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






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






35. The meaning derived from flouting






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






37. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






39. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






40. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






43. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






44. Mental representation of a word






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






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






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






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






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






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