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Linguistics Basics
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1. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Transformations
Infix
Backformation
Question
2. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Illocutionary Act
Flouting
Metonymy
Negation
3. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Maxim of relevance
Four processes by which we produce sound
Perlocutionary Act
Affective connotation
4. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Social connotation
Adjacency Pair
Four processes by which we produce sound
5. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Semantics
Idioms
Derivational morpheme
Individual/Restricted connotation
6. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules
Polyglot
Prescriptive
Diachronic
Referent
7. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind
Archaism
Deixis
Recursion
Utterance
8. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Dative Movement
Homonyms
Pragmatics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
9. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Linguistics
Archaism
Signifier
Categorizations of Speech Acts
10. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Illocutionary Act
Derivation
Invention
11. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Perlocutionary Act
Illocutionary Act
Descriptive
Morphology
12. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Phonology
Affective connotation
Derivational morpheme
Collocative connotation
13. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Universal Grammar
Three types of articulations
Maxim of Quantity
Inference
14. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Signified
Collocative connotation
Deictics
Invention
15. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Infix
Passive
International Phonetic Alphabet
Negation
16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Inference
Descriptive
Recursion
Derivation
17. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Diachronic
Truth value
Competence
Backformation
18. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)
Maxim of Manner
Synchronic
Kernel sentence
Illocutionary Act
19. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Semantic features
Bound morphemes
20. A sentence in context
Passive
Neologism
Utterance
Maxim of Quantity
21. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Transformations
Maxim of Quantity
Morpheme
Categorizations of Speech Acts
22. The meaning derived from flouting
Utterance
Derivational morpheme
Implicature
Inflectional morpheme
23. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Deictics
Linguistics
Signifier
Truth value
24. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Perlocutionary Act
Infix
Flouting
Cohesion
25. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Reflected connotation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Signified
Polyglot
26. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Infix
Reflected connotation
Bound morphemes
27. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Derivation
Phoneme
Flouting
28. Affix in the middle of a word
Maxim of Quantity
Descriptive
Maxim of relevance
Infix
29. The ability to produce language - what you know
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Idioms
Acronyms
Competence
30. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence
Referent
Backformation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Negation
31. The ability to produce language - what you know
Borrowing
Utterance
Phoneme
Competence
32. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Borrowing
Backformation
Passive
Cohesion
33. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true
Presupposition
Neologism
Utterance
Free morphemes
34. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Acronyms
Implicature
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Pragmatics
35. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Acronyms
Backformation
Free morphemes
Diachronic
36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Affective connotation
Maxim of quality
Borrowing
Cohesion
37. The meaning of a sign
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Signified
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Blends
38. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Bound morphemes
Implicature
Free morphemes
Blends
39. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Passive
Maxim of relevance
Presupposition
Shibboleth
40. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation
Three types of articulations
Flouting
Affective connotation
Backformation
41. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Semantic features
Passive
Transformations
Metaphor
42. An utterance produced by a speaker
Particle hopping
Deixis
Speech Act
Shibboleth
43. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Syntax
Homonyms
Question
Illocutionary Act
44. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Locutionary Act
Semantics
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Language planning
45. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Semantics
Implicature
Free morphemes
46. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)
Infix
Metonymy
Invention
Categorizations of Speech Acts
47. Mental representation of a word
Morpheme
Kernel sentence
Synchronic
Meaning
48. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Bound morphemes
Perlocutionary Act
Reflected connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
49. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Morphology
Acronyms
Kernel sentence
Ambiguity
50. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Synchronic
Deictics
Speech Act
Prescriptive
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