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Linguistics Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Semantics
Three types of articulations
Compounding
2. Affix before the root
Prefix
Adjacency Pair
Derivational morpheme
Pragmatics
3. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Bound morphemes
Deixis
Archaism
Shibboleth
4. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Signifier
Descriptive
Meaning
5. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Deictics
Adjacency Pair
Collocative connotation
6. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Referent
Reflected connotation
Idioms
Clipping
7. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Semantic features
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
8. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Derivational morpheme
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Quantity
Universal Grammar
9. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Illocutionary Act
Perlocutionary Act
Lexicon
10. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Compounding
Universal Grammar
Implicature
11. An utterance produced by a speaker
Linguistics
Speech Act
International Phonetic Alphabet
Prefix
12. A new word
Speech Act
Truth value
Neologism
Descriptive
13. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Competence
Phonetics
Perlocutionary Act
Idioms
14. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Competence
Connotation
Flouting
Maxim of quality
15. A new word
Bound morphemes
Metaphor
Linguistics
Neologism
16. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Prescriptive
Adjacency Pair
Speech Act
17. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Context
Signified
Morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
18. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Synchronic
Coded connotations
Reflected connotation
Compounding
19. The meaning derived from flouting
Linguistics
Implicature
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Archaism
20. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Morpheme
Descriptive
Bound morphemes
21. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Perlocutionary Act
Transformations
Blends
Homonyms
22. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Infix
Descriptive
Signifier
Prescriptive
23. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Infix
Clipping
Invention
24. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Transformations
Borrowing
Prescriptive
Pragmatics
25. An utterance produced by a speaker
Homonyms
Speech Act
Four processes by which we produce sound
Maxim of quality
26. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Maxim of quality
Negation
Locutionary Act
27. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Question
Syntax
Signifier
Minimal pair
28. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Utterance
Idioms
Homonyms
Four processes by which we produce sound
29. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Coded connotations
Deictics
Presupposition
Phoneme
30. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Four processes by which we produce sound
Borrowing
Negation
Ambiguity
31. A word that has died out
International Phonetic Alphabet
Archaism
Prescriptive
Deixis
32. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Free morphemes
Individual/Restricted connotation
Semantics
Archaism
33. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Performance
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
34. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Compounding
Adjacency Pair
Phonetics
35. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Universal Grammar
Compounding
Deixis
Semantic features
36. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Negation
Suffix
Borrowing
Maxim of Quantity
37. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Signified
Signifier
Semantics
Metonymy
38. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Prefix
Inflectional morpheme
Perlocutionary Act
Negation
39. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
Universal Grammar
Archaism
40. The ability to produce language - what you know
Coded connotations
Utterance
Competence
Phonology
41. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Minimal pair
Metaphor
Negation
International Phonetic Alphabet
42. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Recursion
Lexicon
Context
Coded connotations
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Dative Movement
Semantics
Collocative connotation
Maxim of quality
44. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Referent
Phonology
Truth value
45. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Calque
Homonyms
Homonyms
Metaphor
46. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Homonyms
Maxim of Quantity
Affective connotation
Flouting
47. A sentence in context
Syntax
Acronyms
Particle hopping
Utterance
48. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Truth value
Free morphemes
Semantics
49. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of quality
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Signified
50. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Linguistics
Phonetics
Invention
Blends