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Linguistics Basics
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1. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Context
Collocative connotation
Compounding
Blends
2. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Presupposition
Reflected connotation
Adjacency Pair
Phonology
3. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signifier
Infix
Intonation
Ambiguity
4. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Blends
Morpheme
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
5. A new word
Neologism
Referent
Coded connotations
Invention
6. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Coded connotations
Invention
Infix
Question
7. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Minimal pair
Intonation
Inference
Semantic features
8. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Prescriptive
Signifier
Flouting
Sign
9. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Phonetics
Social connotation
Inference
Free morphemes
10. One who knows many languages
Deixis
Morpheme
Polyglot
Linguistics
11. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Archaism
Passive
Lexicon
Competence
12. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Maxim of Quantity
Denotation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
13. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Maxim of quality
Passive
Morphology
Descriptive
14. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Signified
Descriptive
Idioms
Syntax
15. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Acronyms
Sign
Bound morphemes
Signifier
16. The meaning derived from flouting
Clipping
Implicature
Semantics
Pragmatics
17. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Maxim of relevance
Suffix
Language planning
Perlocutionary Act
18. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Social connotation
Transformations
Coherence
Flouting
19. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Maxim of relevance
Collocative connotation
Referent
20. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Coded connotations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of Quantity
Maxim of relevance
21. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Derivational morpheme
Coded connotations
Particle hopping
Syntax
22. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Kernel sentence
Calque
Derivation
Social connotation
23. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Acronyms
Reflected connotation
Illocutionary Act
24. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Semantics
Morphology
Social connotation
Presupposition
25. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Backformation
Clipping
Competence
Four components of sounds
26. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Idioms
Truth value
Presupposition
27. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Four processes by which we produce sound
Perlocutionary Act
Polyglot
28. An utterance produced by a speaker
Speech Act
Perlocutionary Act
Phonology
Borrowing
29. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Language planning
Prescriptive
Descriptive
Phoneme
30. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Dative Movement
Three types of articulations
Individual/Restricted connotation
Metonymy
31. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Recursion
Semantics
Lexicon
32. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Bound morphemes
Denotation
Prefix
Cohesion
33. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Reflected connotation
Free morphemes
Polyglot
Coded connotations
34. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Maxim of Quantity
Sign
Clipping
Question
35. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Morpheme
Clipping
Polyglot
Context
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Utterance
Collocative connotation
Calque
Illocutionary Act
37. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Semantic features
Implicature
Metaphor
International Phonetic Alphabet
38. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Minimal pair
Clipping
Backformation
Speech Act
39. The overall meaning of a text
Intonation
Idioms
Coherence
Adjacency Pair
40. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Minimal pair
Compounding
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prefix
41. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Inflectional morpheme
Morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
Perlocutionary Act
42. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Locutionary Act
Competence
Prefix
Backformation
43. Affix after the root
Negation
Question
Maxim of relevance
Suffix
44. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Signified
Social connotation
Adjacency Pair
45. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Infix
Connotation
Backformation
Categorizations of Speech Acts
46. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Maxim of relevance
Adjacency Pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
47. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Morpheme
Referent
Coherence
48. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Compounding
Metaphor
Performance
Maxim of quality
49. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Coherence
Semantics
Implicature
50. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Lexicon
Polyglot
Four processes by which we produce sound
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