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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)






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






3. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






4. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts






5. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






6. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






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






8. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






9. A word that has died out






10. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






11. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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






13. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






14. Mental representation of a word






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






16. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






17. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






18. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






19. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






20. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly






21. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






23. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






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






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






27. Affix in the middle of a word






28. An utterance produced by a speaker






29. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






30. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






31. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






32. One who knows many languages






33. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






34. A word that has died out






35. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






36. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






37. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






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






39. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






41. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






43. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






44. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






45. The meaning derived from flouting






46. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






47. A single sound. K - d - t - e






48. A new word






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






50. The vocabulary of a speaker/language







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