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Linguistics Basics
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1. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Dative Movement
Four components of sounds
Illocutionary Act
Deictics
2. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Semantics
Calque
Coherence
3. An utterance produced by a speaker
Intonation
Social connotation
Speech Act
Perlocutionary Act
4. Affix in the middle of a word
Derivational morpheme
Four components of sounds
Infix
Recursion
5. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
International Phonetic Alphabet
Adjacency Pair
Presupposition
Kernel sentence
6. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Social connotation
Clipping
Negation
Adjacency Pair
7. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Borrowing
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Intonation
Borrowing
8. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Performance
Maxim of Manner
Social connotation
Backformation
9. The science that studies language
Acronyms
Linguistics
Coherence
Polyglot
10. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Ambiguity
Morpheme
Free morphemes
Cohesion
11. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Truth value
Bound morphemes
Compounding
Competence
12. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Backformation
Illocutionary Act
Phonetics
13. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Acronyms
Derivation
Synchronic
Minimal pair
14. The rise and fall of sentences
Referent
Deictics
Prescriptive
Intonation
15. Affix after the root
Invention
Clipping
Suffix
Categorizations of Speech Acts
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Phonology
Four components of sounds
Clipping
17. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Deictics
Clipping
Idioms
Morpheme
18. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Inflectional morpheme
Passive
Morphology
19. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Morphology
Morpheme
Polyglot
20. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Collocative connotation
Connotation
Transformations
Maxim of quality
21. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Inference
Deixis
Morpheme
Transformations
22. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Metonymy
Coded connotations
Phonology
Illocutionary Act
23. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Locutionary Act
Dative Movement
Pragmatics
Synchronic
24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Infix
Free morphemes
Transformations
Minimal pair
25. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Performance
Phonology
Locutionary Act
Three types of articulations
26. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Maxim of Manner
Intonation
Connotation
Coded connotations
27. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Performance
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of Manner
Derivation
28. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Maxim of Manner
Illocutionary Act
Coded connotations
Minimal pair
29. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Bound morphemes
Inflectional morpheme
Backformation
30. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Intonation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Social connotation
Synchronic
31. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Inflectional morpheme
Language planning
Clipping
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
32. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Metonymy
Derivation
Connotation
Signifier
33. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Clipping
Performance
Inflectional morpheme
Clipping
34. Mental representation of a word
Affective connotation
Invention
Speech Act
Meaning
35. The overall meaning of a text
Idioms
Intonation
Coherence
Diachronic
36. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Affective connotation
Synchronic
Intonation
Phoneme
37. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Coherence
Morpheme
38. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Inference
Morphology
Prefix
Semantics
39. Meaning components
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
Minimal pair
Calque
40. A sentence in context
Intonation
Utterance
Implicature
Sign
41. Deals with how sentences are formed
Presupposition
Syntax
Cohesion
Infix
42. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Borrowing
Linguistics
Performance
Individual/Restricted connotation
43. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Metaphor
Adjacency Pair
Synchronic
Diachronic
44. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Inference
Coded connotations
Flouting
Morphology
45. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Language planning
Denotation
Context
Minimal pair
46. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Descriptive
Negation
Competence
Signified
47. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Passive
Perlocutionary Act
Transformations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
48. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Truth value
Collocative connotation
Metaphor
Four components of sounds
49. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Performance
Perlocutionary Act
Minimal pair
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
50. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Phonology
Prescriptive
Blends
Homonyms
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