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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






2. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






3. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






4. The meaning of a sign






5. An utterance produced by a speaker






6. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






7. One who knows many languages






8. Deals with how the sounds are organized






9. A new word






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






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






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






13. Affix after the root






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






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






16. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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






18. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






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






20. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






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






22. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






23. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






25. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






28. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






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






31. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






32. The meaning derived from flouting






33. The rise and fall of sentences






34. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. One who knows many languages






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






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






45. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






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






47. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






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