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22 Cards in this Set
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Under-extension |
the use of the word to refer to an overly narrow view or restricted number of referents ex. "work" - everyone goes to the same place |
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Synonymy |
Words that have similar meanings |
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Antonymy |
Words that have opposite meanings |
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Polysemy |
One work with two or more related meanings |
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Homophony |
Two words with the same pronunciation but different meanings |
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Homographs |
Different words with the same spelling |
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Do homophones have the same spelling? |
The may or may not have the same spelling |
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What are homphones? |
Words that sound the same |
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Paraphrase |
Two sentences that have very similar meanings. Ex. The cat ate the mouse, the mouse was eaten by the cat |
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Entailment |
Two sentence in which the truth of the first implies the truth of the second, but the truth of the second does not necessarily imply the truth of the first Ex. George killed the burglar The burglar is dead. |
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Contradiction |
Two sentence such that if one is true, then the second must be false ex. George is rich George lives in a shelter |
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Connotation |
This theory states that the meaning of a word is simply the set of associations that the word evokes. |
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Denotation |
This theory state that the meaning of a word is not the set of associations that it evokes, rather the entity to which it refers: that is, it's denotation or referent |
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Extensions and Intension |
This theory attempts to combine Denotation and Connotation. Extension refers to referent of the word, and intention to the association it evokes. |
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Componential analysis |
This theory is based on the idea that meaning can be decomposed into smaller semantic units. These units of meaning are called features. Semantic features can be combined to group entities into smaller classes. For example, the semantic features [+living, +human, -adult] give us the category of children |
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Fuzzy Concepts |
Fuzzy concepts are concepts that can differ from person to person. They have no clear boundaries. Ex. something you could find expensive |
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Graded membership |
Concepts have internal structure. The members of a concept can be graded according to how typical they are within that concept. The most typical member is selected as the prototype. Members sharing fewer properties are farther from the prototype |
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Metaphor |
The understanding of one concept in terms of another |
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Lexicalization |
Refers to the process whereby concepts are encoded into the meanings of words. Languages differ in terms of how many words they use to convey a concept |
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Grammaticalization |
Refers to concepts that are expressed as affixed or functional categories. |
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Homonymy |
one form /multiple unrelatedmeanings |
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Idiom |
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ). |