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Linguistics Basics
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1. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Illocutionary Act
Question
Cohesion
Transformations
2. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Referent
Free morphemes
Phonetics
3. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Connotation
Three types of articulations
Question
Denotation
4. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Semantics
Lexicon
Deictics
Invention
5. One who knows many languages
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Polyglot
Blends
Three types of articulations
6. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Infix
Backformation
Morpheme
Morpheme
7. Mental representation of a word
Kernel sentence
Meaning
Illocutionary Act
Referent
8. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Minimal pair
Semantic features
Four components of sounds
Performance
9. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Borrowing
Maxim of relevance
Free morphemes
10. The science that studies language
Blends
Linguistics
Idioms
Illocutionary Act
11. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Blends
Three types of articulations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Idioms
12. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Collocative connotation
Meaning
Social connotation
Reflected connotation
13. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Descriptive
Implicature
Maxim of Quantity
14. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Phonology
Cohesion
Kernel sentence
Adjacency Pair
15. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Calque
Semantics
Phonology
16. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Recursion
Archaism
Truth value
Flouting
17. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Ambiguity
Coherence
Morpheme
18. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Intonation
Calque
Deixis
Meaning
19. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Adjacency Pair
International Phonetic Alphabet
Diachronic
Morpheme
20. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Speech Act
Lexicon
Signifier
Denotation
21. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Competence
Phoneme
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
22. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Archaism
Prefix
Homonyms
Coded connotations
23. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Context
Passive
Language planning
24. The ability to produce language - what you know
Synchronic
Affective connotation
Competence
Free morphemes
25. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Presupposition
Borrowing
Polyglot
26. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Compounding
Diachronic
Blends
Categorizations of Speech Acts
27. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Deictics
Derivational morpheme
Neologism
Phonology
28. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Infix
Denotation
Free morphemes
Polyglot
29. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Kernel sentence
Calque
Implicature
Phoneme
30. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Four components of sounds
Diachronic
Perlocutionary Act
Dative Movement
31. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Descriptive
Calque
Polyglot
32. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme
Performance
Polyglot
Maxim of quality
Bound morphemes
33. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Intonation
Denotation
Implicature
34. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Polyglot
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
35. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Coded connotations
Descriptive
International Phonetic Alphabet
Invention
36. Affix after the root
Dative Movement
Flouting
Referent
Suffix
37. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Synchronic
Idioms
Pragmatics
Metonymy
38. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Bound morphemes
Polyglot
Four components of sounds
Free morphemes
39. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Homonyms
Pragmatics
Locutionary Act
40. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Negation
Recursion
Four processes by which we produce sound
Four components of sounds
41. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Clipping
Flouting
Illocutionary Act
42. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Borrowing
Maxim of Quantity
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Recursion
43. Affix before the root
Recursion
Coded connotations
Prefix
Connotation
44. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Suffix
Intonation
Shibboleth
Sign
45. Affix before the root
Signified
Universal Grammar
Borrowing
Prefix
46. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Linguistics
Morphology
Four processes by which we produce sound
Compounding
47. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Coherence
Phoneme
Referent
Derivation
48. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Signifier
Reflected connotation
Shibboleth
Derivational morpheme
49. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Minimal pair
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Reflected connotation
50. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Connotation
Acronyms
International Phonetic Alphabet
Phonology
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