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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






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






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






5. Deals with how the sounds are organized






6. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






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






9. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






10. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






11. The ability to produce language - what you know






12. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






13. A new word






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






15. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






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






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






18. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






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






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






22. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






23. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






26. The overall meaning of a text






27. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. A new word






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






37. The meaning derived from flouting






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






39. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






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






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






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






43. The science that studies language






44. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






49. Deals with how the sounds are organized






50. Actually saying a word - what you can do






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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