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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






2. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






3. A sentence in context






4. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)






5. The meaning derived from flouting






6. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






7. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)






8. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






9. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence






10. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






11. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






12. The overall meaning of a text






13. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






14. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






15. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






16. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






17. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)






18. The rise and fall of sentences






19. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






20. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)






21. Mental representation of a word






22. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






23. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






24. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






25. One who knows many languages






26. A new word






27. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






28. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






29. Affix before the root






30. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






31. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






32. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)






33. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






34. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






35. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






36. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






37. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






38. An utterance produced by a speaker






39. An utterance produced by a speaker






40. The ability to produce language - what you know






41. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






42. Deals with how the sounds are organized






43. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






44. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






45. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






46. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






47. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning






48. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






49. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






50. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning