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Linguistics Basics
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1. A new word
Borrowing
Semantic features
Neologism
Deictics
2. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Negation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Maxim of Manner
Calque
3. Affix in the middle of a word
Perlocutionary Act
Inflectional morpheme
Infix
Invention
4. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
Speech Act
Free morphemes
5. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Flouting
Archaism
Locutionary Act
6. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Invention
Synchronic
Lexicon
Minimal pair
7. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Homonyms
Affective connotation
Context
8. Mental representation of a word
Borrowing
Meaning
Prescriptive
Universal Grammar
9. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Cohesion
Maxim of Quantity
Morpheme
10. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Meaning
Derivational morpheme
Shibboleth
Backformation
11. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Archaism
Question
Backformation
Phoneme
12. Meaning components
Semantic features
Kernel sentence
Context
Prefix
13. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Affective connotation
Three types of articulations
14. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes
Coded connotations
Illocutionary Act
Infix
Acronyms
15. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Referent
Truth value
Clipping
Deictics
16. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Coded connotations
Polyglot
Maxim of relevance
Particle hopping
17. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Phonology
Homonyms
Morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
18. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Individual/Restricted connotation
Prescriptive
Idioms
19. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Truth value
Passive
Referent
Compounding
20. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Free morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Invention
Derivational morpheme
21. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Transformations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Maxim of relevance
Transformations
22. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Individual/Restricted connotation
Homonyms
Utterance
23. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Utterance
Maxim of quality
Referent
Flouting
24. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Meaning
Synchronic
Metaphor
25. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Maxim of Quantity
Inflectional morpheme
Transformations
Suffix
26. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Bound morphemes
Passive
Neologism
27. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Illocutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Meaning
Phonetics
28. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Transformations
Kernel sentence
Maxim of Manner
Derivational morpheme
29. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Transformations
Competence
Social connotation
30. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Kernel sentence
Derivation
Synchronic
31. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Particle hopping
Derivation
Borrowing
Prescriptive
32. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Four components of sounds
Universal Grammar
Implicature
Invention
33. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Universal Grammar
Flouting
Three types of articulations
Competence
34. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Recursion
Idioms
Negation
35. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Competence
Metaphor
Universal Grammar
36. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Kernel sentence
Acronyms
Metonymy
37. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Derivation
Morpheme
Transformations
38. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Deictics
Dative Movement
Invention
39. Affix after the root
Question
Maxim of Manner
Truth value
Suffix
40. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Social connotation
Coherence
Synchronic
Diachronic
41. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
International Phonetic Alphabet
Connotation
Compounding
42. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Collocative connotation
Acronyms
Performance
Deictics
43. The meaning derived from flouting
Locutionary Act
Implicature
Backformation
Maxim of Manner
44. The meaning of a sign
Question
Implicature
Signified
Idioms
45. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Language planning
Utterance
Recursion
Diachronic
46. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Deictics
Invention
Four processes by which we produce sound
47. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Shibboleth
Phonology
Connotation
Suffix
48. Meaning components
Semantic features
Borrowing
Truth value
Homonyms
49. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Compounding
Metonymy
Signified
Denotation
50. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Clipping
Perlocutionary Act
Deictics
Pragmatics
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