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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






2. The ability to produce language - what you know






3. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






4. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






5. Affix after the root






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






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






8. Meaning components






9. One who knows many languages






10. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






11. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






12. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






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






14. A single sound. K - d - t - e






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






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






17. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






18. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






19. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






20. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






21. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






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






23. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality






24. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






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






27. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






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






29. A sentence in context






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






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






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






33. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts






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






35. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






36. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes






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






38. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






39. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






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






42. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc






43. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






44. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






46. One who knows many languages






47. Actually saying a word - what you can do






48. Affix in the middle of a word






49. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






50. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words