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Linguistics Basics
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1. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Speech Act
Affective connotation
Phonology
Prescriptive
2. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Archaism
Intonation
Sign
Referent
3. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
International Phonetic Alphabet
Illocutionary Act
Maxim of relevance
Deictics
4. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Three types of articulations
Four processes by which we produce sound
Universal Grammar
5. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Clipping
Three types of articulations
Question
Deictics
6. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Referent
Coded connotations
Suffix
Maxim of Manner
7. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Kernel sentence
Lexicon
Recursion
Passive
8. The meaning derived from flouting
Prescriptive
Maxim of quality
Implicature
Clipping
9. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Coded connotations
Signifier
Question
Pragmatics
10. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Question
Adjacency Pair
Maxim of quality
Perlocutionary Act
11. An utterance produced by a speaker
Four processes by which we produce sound
Speech Act
Prefix
Three types of articulations
12. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Diachronic
Derivation
Minimal pair
Acronyms
13. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Affective connotation
Synchronic
International Phonetic Alphabet
Calque
14. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Prescriptive
Maxim of relevance
Pragmatics
Flouting
15. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Semantic features
Dative Movement
Infix
Cohesion
16. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Utterance
Illocutionary Act
Infix
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
17. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Invention
Derivational morpheme
Social connotation
Synchronic
18. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Referent
Metaphor
Descriptive
Question
19. Affix in the middle of a word
Infix
Synchronic
Negation
Universal Grammar
20. The rise and fall of sentences
Suffix
Transformations
Intonation
Inflectional morpheme
21. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Passive
Compounding
Dative Movement
Four processes by which we produce sound
22. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning
Language planning
Connotation
Acronyms
Pragmatics
23. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Minimal pair
Negation
Compounding
Maxim of relevance
24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)
Flouting
Free morphemes
Competence
Referent
25. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Context
Morphology
Inference
Four processes by which we produce sound
26. The science that studies language
Linguistics
Semantic features
Invention
Clipping
27. Affix after the root
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Compounding
Suffix
Morphology
28. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Locutionary Act
Deixis
Phoneme
Free morphemes
29. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Presupposition
Pragmatics
Suffix
Ambiguity
30. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Phonetics
Neologism
Maxim of relevance
Denotation
31. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Coherence
Particle hopping
Speech Act
Utterance
32. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)
Collocative connotation
Social connotation
Linguistics
Reflected connotation
33. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Diachronic
Signifier
Dative Movement
Particle hopping
34. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly
Maxim of Manner
Prefix
Implicature
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
35. The word that connects the meaning and the referent
Particle hopping
Linguistics
Sign
Deixis
36. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Derivation
Truth value
Universal Grammar
Ambiguity
37. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that
Backformation
Cohesion
Calque
Maxim of Quantity
38. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Inflectional morpheme
Semantics
Calque
Morphology
39. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Bound morphemes
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Semantic features
Polyglot
40. A sentence in context
Three types of articulations
Competence
Utterance
Affective connotation
41. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Kernel sentence
Connotation
Phoneme
Metaphor
42. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Three types of articulations
Context
Affective connotation
Maxim of quality
43. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Social connotation
Maxim of relevance
Flouting
Question
44. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)
Dative Movement
Four components of sounds
Particle hopping
Collocative connotation
45. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes
Derivational morpheme
Transformations
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Free morphemes
46. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Idioms
Neologism
Implicature
Suffix
47. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Illocutionary Act
Acronyms
Clipping
Polyglot
48. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)
Adjacency Pair
Competence
Dative Movement
International Phonetic Alphabet
49. Deals with how sentences are formed
Syntax
Morpheme
Three types of articulations
Four components of sounds
50. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Compounding
Homonyms
Inflectional morpheme
Negation
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