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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Deals with how sentences are formed






2. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






3. Deals with how sentences are formed






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






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






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






7. Actually saying a word - what you can do






8. The meaning derived from flouting






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






10. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






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






12. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






14. Mental representation of a word






15. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






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






18. Affix before the root






19. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






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






23. The overall meaning of a text






24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






25. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






27. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






30. The rise and fall of sentences






31. A sentence in context






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. One who knows many languages






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






42. The meaning of a sign






43. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






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






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






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






48. An utterance produced by a speaker






49. The science that studies language






50. A new word







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