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Linguistics Basics
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1. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Morphology
Infix
Deictics
Maxim of Quantity
2. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Bound morphemes
Deixis
Meaning
Descriptive
3. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Deixis
Bound morphemes
Blends
4. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Ambiguity
Derivation
Polyglot
Social connotation
5. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Referent
Semantics
Recursion
Collocative connotation
6. A new word
Neologism
Referent
Infix
Acronyms
7. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Locutionary Act
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Minimal pair
Morphology
8. A sentence in context
Utterance
Performance
Calque
Kernel sentence
9. The overall meaning of a text
Phonology
Clipping
Coherence
Perlocutionary Act
10. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Recursion
Language planning
Free morphemes
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
11. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Social connotation
Collocative connotation
Utterance
Synchronic
12. The overall meaning of a text
Coherence
Recursion
Four processes by which we produce sound
Three types of articulations
13. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Phoneme
Referent
Derivational morpheme
14. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Three types of articulations
Pragmatics
Reflected connotation
Shibboleth
15. One who knows many languages
Phoneme
Polyglot
Utterance
Inference
16. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Four processes by which we produce sound
Borrowing
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of quality
17. The meaning of a sign
Locutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
Reflected connotation
Signified
18. Affix after the root
Lexicon
Performance
Suffix
Denotation
19. Affix in the middle of a word
Invention
Neologism
Infix
Calque
20. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Phonetics
Context
Acronyms
Locutionary Act
21. Affix in the middle of a word
Deictics
Infix
Borrowing
Cohesion
22. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Negation
Maxim of Manner
Transformations
Recursion
23. One who knows many languages
Idioms
Polyglot
Phoneme
Descriptive
24. The meaning of a sign
Minimal pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
Negation
Signified
25. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Flouting
Infix
Dative Movement
Homonyms
26. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Archaism
Sign
Truth value
Coherence
27. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Social connotation
Competence
Illocutionary Act
Diachronic
28. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Presupposition
Four processes by which we produce sound
Linguistics
Compounding
29. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Borrowing
Metonymy
Utterance
Passive
30. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Flouting
Phonetics
Language planning
Dative Movement
31. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Performance
Backformation
Ambiguity
32. The rise and fall of sentences
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of relevance
Intonation
Phoneme
33. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Inference
Shibboleth
Universal Grammar
Invention
34. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Context
International Phonetic Alphabet
Kernel sentence
Linguistics
35. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Linguistics
Presupposition
Semantic features
Derivational morpheme
36. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Phonetics
Kernel sentence
Clipping
37. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metaphor
Coherence
Universal Grammar
Maxim of quality
38. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Neologism
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Phonology
Maxim of Quantity
39. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Descriptive
Collocative connotation
Negation
Performance
40. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Reflected connotation
Collocative connotation
Lexicon
Perlocutionary Act
41. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Suffix
Phonetics
Metaphor
42. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Intonation
Linguistics
Particle hopping
Inference
43. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Free morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Connotation
Dative Movement
44. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Metaphor
Minimal pair
Coded connotations
Phoneme
45. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Presupposition
Derivation
Adjacency Pair
Recursion
46. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Phonology
Signifier
Shibboleth
47. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantics
Affective connotation
Prescriptive
48. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Phoneme
Signified
Connotation
Perlocutionary Act
49. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Flouting
Recursion
Deictics
Ambiguity
50. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Borrowing
Linguistics
Flouting
Signifier
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