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






3. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






4. A sentence in context






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






6. The ability to produce language - what you know






7. Deals with how sentences are formed






8. One who knows many languages






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






10. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






12. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






13. Mental representation of a word






14. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






15. Meaning components






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






17. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






20. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






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






22. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






23. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






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






25. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






27. The rise and fall of sentences






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






29. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)






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






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






32. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






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






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






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






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






37. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






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






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






40. Deals with the sounds of a language






41. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






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






43. Affix in the middle of a word






44. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






45. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






46. Mental representation of a word






47. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






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






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






50. An utterance produced by a speaker







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