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Linguistics Basics
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1. The meaning of a sign
Neologism
Signified
Sign
Invention
2. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Deixis
Prescriptive
Speech Act
Implicature
3. The meaning of a sign
Sign
Signified
Polyglot
Maxim of Quantity
4. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Social connotation
Particle hopping
Kernel sentence
Four processes by which we produce sound
5. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Phonetics
Metonymy
Negation
Deixis
6. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Four components of sounds
Inference
Language planning
Idioms
7. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Language planning
Illocutionary Act
Prefix
Maxim of Quantity
8. Affix in the middle of a word
Bound morphemes
Infix
Social connotation
Signifier
9. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Backformation
Blends
Particle hopping
Dative Movement
10. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Implicature
Presupposition
Backformation
Maxim of relevance
11. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Utterance
Passive
Referent
Metaphor
12. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Acronyms
Presupposition
Language planning
Blends
13. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Metaphor
Diachronic
Descriptive
Deixis
14. The meaning derived from flouting
Speech Act
Signifier
Implicature
Cohesion
15. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Descriptive
Backformation
Three types of articulations
Synchronic
16. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Acronyms
Affective connotation
Adjacency Pair
Perlocutionary Act
17. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Phonetics
Invention
Maxim of Manner
Illocutionary Act
18. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Transformations
Metaphor
Inflectional morpheme
Compounding
19. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Prescriptive
Phonology
Metonymy
20. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Locutionary Act
Invention
Perlocutionary Act
Descriptive
21. The overall meaning of a text
Universal Grammar
Presupposition
Maxim of relevance
Coherence
22. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Shibboleth
Signifier
Kernel sentence
Metaphor
23. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Phoneme
Metaphor
Prescriptive
24. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Cohesion
Synchronic
Referent
Clipping
25. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Derivation
Phonetics
Clipping
Adjacency Pair
26. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Phonetics
Passive
Metaphor
Maxim of Manner
27. The situation in which a sentence is uttered
Passive
Context
Negation
Phonetics
28. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Adjacency Pair
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of Quantity
29. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Infix
Four components of sounds
Presupposition
Performance
30. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of Manner
Inference
Semantics
31. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Prefix
Connotation
Syntax
32. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Phoneme
Minimal pair
Shibboleth
Denotation
33. The science that studies language
Semantics
Linguistics
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quality
34. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Derivation
Speech Act
Maxim of Quantity
Acronyms
35. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Signified
Universal Grammar
Cohesion
36. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Prescriptive
Morphology
Synchronic
Referent
37. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Descriptive
Locutionary Act
Collocative connotation
Adjacency Pair
38. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Infix
Archaism
Illocutionary Act
Diachronic
39. Mental representation of a word
Meaning
Performance
Phonology
Presupposition
40. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Prescriptive
Invention
Dative Movement
41. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Suffix
Universal Grammar
Intonation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
42. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Meaning
Deixis
Descriptive
Pragmatics
43. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Inflectional morpheme
Calque
Derivational morpheme
Lexicon
44. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Backformation
Borrowing
Derivational morpheme
Transformations
45. Affix before the root
Prefix
Deictics
Locutionary Act
Recursion
46. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Three types of articulations
Suffix
Denotation
Infix
47. One who knows many languages
Polyglot
Phonology
Maxim of Manner
Morpheme
48. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Inflectional morpheme
Backformation
Acronyms
Homonyms
49. The science that studies language
Homonyms
Linguistics
Metaphor
Infix
50. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied
Kernel sentence
Archaism
Suffix
Competence