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Linguistics Basics
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1. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Linguistics
Signifier
Maxim of quality
Suffix
2. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Derivational morpheme
Recursion
Deixis
Individual/Restricted connotation
3. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Backformation
Affective connotation
Adjacency Pair
Idioms
4. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Inference
Language planning
Phonology
5. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Derivational morpheme
Flouting
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
6. Deals with the sounds of a language
Homonyms
Lexicon
Phonetics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
7. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Derivational morpheme
Blends
Context
Sign
8. The science that studies language
Context
Competence
Linguistics
Infix
9. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Sign
Recursion
Phoneme
Kernel sentence
10. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Presupposition
Deixis
Neologism
Borrowing
11. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Inference
Deictics
Inference
Coded connotations
12. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Dative Movement
Clipping
Ambiguity
Cohesion
13. A word that has died out
Semantics
Archaism
Maxim of relevance
Maxim of relevance
14. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Blends
Synchronic
Pragmatics
Passive
15. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Maxim of Manner
Reflected connotation
Acronyms
Signified
16. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Coherence
Passive
Social connotation
Inflectional morpheme
17. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Semantics
Negation
Diachronic
Context
18. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Borrowing
Clipping
Synchronic
Archaism
19. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Linguistics
Semantics
Minimal pair
20. The meaning derived from flouting
Coherence
Connotation
Archaism
Implicature
21. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Lexicon
Inference
Sign
Coherence
22. An utterance produced by a speaker
Minimal pair
Connotation
Invention
Speech Act
23. A sentence in context
Connotation
Truth value
Utterance
Free morphemes
24. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Flouting
Social connotation
Three types of articulations
Signifier
25. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Social connotation
Metaphor
Morpheme
Morphology
26. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Ambiguity
Four components of sounds
Meaning
Prescriptive
27. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Semantics
Utterance
Individual/Restricted connotation
28. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Shibboleth
Cohesion
Inflectional morpheme
Phonetics
29. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Presupposition
Universal Grammar
Passive
Transformations
30. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Invention
Homonyms
Pragmatics
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
31. The overall meaning of a text
Bound morphemes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Coherence
Prescriptive
32. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Bound morphemes
Derivational morpheme
Minimal pair
Perlocutionary Act
33. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Social connotation
Recursion
Referent
Transformations
34. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Deictics
Prefix
Passive
Presupposition
35. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Derivational morpheme
Neologism
Acronyms
Inflectional morpheme
36. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Prefix
Maxim of quality
Inflectional morpheme
Morphology
37. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Perlocutionary Act
Kernel sentence
Diachronic
Maxim of quality
38. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Linguistics
Calque
Signified
Bound morphemes
39. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Prefix
Social connotation
Lexicon
Signified
40. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Prefix
Diachronic
Speech Act
41. Affix in the middle of a word
Dative Movement
Infix
Suffix
Free morphemes
42. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Blends
Blends
Deixis
43. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Minimal pair
Performance
Derivation
Cohesion
44. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Meaning
Syntax
Phonetics
45. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Metonymy
Minimal pair
Illocutionary Act
Competence
46. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Adjacency Pair
Inflectional morpheme
Free morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
47. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Metaphor
Speech Act
Passive
48. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Idioms
Coherence
Semantic features
Borrowing
49. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Particle hopping
Kernel sentence
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Synchronic
50. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Morphology
Denotation
Passive
Maxim of Manner