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Linguistics Basics
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1. The overall meaning of a text
Phonetics
Coherence
Bound morphemes
Maxim of quality
2. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Coded connotations
Maxim of quality
Universal Grammar
Maxim of relevance
3. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Intonation
Social connotation
Homonyms
Minimal pair
4. The rise and fall of sentences
Inference
Intonation
Maxim of Manner
Descriptive
5. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Speech Act
Infix
Derivational morpheme
Deixis
6. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Sign
Performance
Illocutionary Act
Cohesion
7. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Negation
Morphology
Ambiguity
Homonyms
8. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Idioms
Shibboleth
Context
9. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Deixis
Derivation
Ambiguity
Descriptive
10. Meaning components
Semantic features
Three types of articulations
Three types of articulations
Sign
11. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Calque
Negation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Bound morphemes
12. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Morpheme
Phonetics
Infix
Blends
13. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Four components of sounds
Phonetics
Blends
Homonyms
14. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Lexicon
Transformations
Speech Act
15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Phonology
Deixis
Maxim of Manner
Free morphemes
16. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Performance
Dative Movement
Phonology
17. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Particle hopping
Four components of sounds
Social connotation
Borrowing
18. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Inflectional morpheme
Acronyms
Utterance
Neologism
19. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Pragmatics
Signified
Prefix
20. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Archaism
Universal Grammar
Metaphor
Lexicon
21. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Inference
Referent
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
22. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Referent
Passive
Derivation
23. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Polyglot
Pragmatics
Free morphemes
Locutionary Act
24. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Morphology
Competence
Kernel sentence
Connotation
25. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Minimal pair
Question
26. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Invention
Diachronic
Social connotation
27. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Homonyms
Homonyms
Polyglot
Four components of sounds
28. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Sign
Coherence
Question
Transformations
29. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Adjacency Pair
Social connotation
Borrowing
Coded connotations
30. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Lexicon
Phonology
Locutionary Act
Diachronic
31. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Locutionary Act
Lexicon
Morphology
Free morphemes
32. Deals with the sounds of a language
Semantics
Maxim of relevance
Phonetics
Language planning
33. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Derivation
Bound morphemes
Phonetics
Maxim of quality
34. A new word
Individual/Restricted connotation
Neologism
Universal Grammar
Calque
35. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Polyglot
Negation
Backformation
Inference
36. An utterance produced by a speaker
Calque
Speech Act
Prefix
Individual/Restricted connotation
37. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Synchronic
Referent
Language planning
Morpheme
38. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Signified
Negation
Synchronic
Deictics
39. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Infix
Particle hopping
Truth value
Kernel sentence
40. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Language planning
Social connotation
Calque
Backformation
41. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
Semantics
42. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Inflectional morpheme
Pragmatics
Particle hopping
Four components of sounds
43. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Recursion
Social connotation
Coherence
44. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Utterance
Bound morphemes
Truth value
45. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Semantic features
Derivation
Kernel sentence
46. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Borrowing
Denotation
Prefix
Morpheme
47. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Phonetics
Calque
Lexicon
48. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Signifier
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
Signified
49. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Derivation
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of Manner
Polyglot
50. One who knows many languages
Ambiguity
Linguistics
Polyglot
Language planning
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