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Linguistics Basics
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1. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Universal Grammar
Invention
Flouting
Invention
2. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Phonetics
Maxim of relevance
Synchronic
Connotation
3. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Inflectional morpheme
Social connotation
Presupposition
Implicature
4. The science that studies language
Presupposition
Idioms
Linguistics
Infix
5. The overall meaning of a text
Invention
Morpheme
Coherence
Connotation
6. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Intonation
Diachronic
Universal Grammar
Acronyms
7. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Referent
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Coded connotations
International Phonetic Alphabet
8. A single sound. K - d - t - e
Speech Act
Metonymy
Phoneme
Reflected connotation
9. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Affective connotation
Four components of sounds
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Linguistics
10. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Cohesion
Homonyms
Individual/Restricted connotation
Maxim of quality
11. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Bound morphemes
Metonymy
Borrowing
Metonymy
12. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language
Descriptive
Deictics
Phonetics
Four components of sounds
13. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell
Recursion
Archaism
Referent
Presupposition
14. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Maxim of quality
Flouting
Performance
Clipping
15. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning
Phonetics
Metonymy
Truth value
Presupposition
16. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Diachronic
Derivational morpheme
Prescriptive
Blends
17. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Four processes by which we produce sound
Archaism
Metonymy
Compounding
18. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Acronyms
Inference
Truth value
Lexicon
19. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation
Implicature
Four processes by which we produce sound
Phonology
Flouting
20. Affix before the root
Invention
Prefix
Semantics
Reflected connotation
21. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)
Universal Grammar
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Truth value
Dative Movement
22. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning
Passive
Infix
Morpheme
Deictics
23. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Performance
Social connotation
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Minimal pair
24. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)
Homonyms
Syntax
Illocutionary Act
Metonymy
25. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary
Acronyms
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Context
Question
26. The overall meaning of a text
Linguistics
Suffix
Coherence
Homonyms
27. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)
Ambiguity
Implicature
Compounding
Minimal pair
28. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Suffix
Synchronic
Bound morphemes
29. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Phoneme
Metonymy
Transformations
Compounding
30. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for
Maxim of quality
Social connotation
Compounding
Competence
31. Actually saying a word - what you can do
Performance
Linguistics
Metaphor
Calque
32. Deals with how the sounds are organized
Illocutionary Act
Phonology
Synchronic
Context
33. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Semantic features
Passive
Bound morphemes
Universal Grammar
34. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Minimal pair
Collocative connotation
Maxim of quality
Free morphemes
35. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Inflectional morpheme
Derivational morpheme
Minimal pair
36. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance
Prefix
Maxim of relevance
Illocutionary Act
Individual/Restricted connotation
37. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)
Pragmatics
Phoneme
Question
Morphology
38. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong
Archaism
Shibboleth
Backformation
Three types of articulations
39. The vocabulary of a speaker/language
Morpheme
Intonation
Recursion
Lexicon
40. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only
Sign
Inflectional morpheme
Maxim of Quantity
Presupposition
41. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)
Free morphemes
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Referent
Locutionary Act
42. Mental representation of a word
Kernel sentence
Flouting
Meaning
Flouting
43. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Cohesion
Competence
Archaism
Phonetics
44. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words
Synchronic
Deixis
Meaning
Homonyms
45. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning
Acronyms
Homonyms
Borrowing
Inference
46. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word
Denotation
Locutionary Act
Backformation
Passive
47. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Sign
International Phonetic Alphabet
Diachronic
Semantic features
48. Affix after the root
Morphology
Suffix
Collocative connotation
Synchronic
49. The rise and fall of sentences
Intonation
Signified
Sign
Individual/Restricted connotation
50. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Archaism
Free morphemes
Acronyms
Negation
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