cmn 105 midterm1 terms semantics
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 disciplines that influence semantics | linguisitcs meaning or sense of words, philosphy - concepts of reference and truth conditions |
| lexical decomposition | breaking down words into their more basic meaning "components" or semantic features |
| synonomy | words have the same sense, all semantic features in common |
| overlap | have some of their semantic features in common but not all |
| hyponym | its meaning contains the meaning of another word (tree oak - walnut, maple -willow |
| types of autonomy | binary - complete opposites on/off, gradable - pair that have opposite ends but have steps inbetween hot-cold fat -thin, converse -- pairs that describe a relationship between 2 items from opposite perspectives. always exist together above/below, left & reight |
| types of lexical ambiguites | polysemy - more than one meaning, homophone - different words sound the ame but are spelled different and have differeent meanings, heteronym - different words are spelled the same but sound different and mean something different |
| syntactical ambiguity | when a phrase can be interpreted as having more than one meaning |
| types of reference | referent - entity or objct identified by the use of a referring expression, co reference - when multiple words can refer to the same idea, object or entity extension - range of examples of the referent |
| types of extension | prototype -the typical member or example of any given referent, stereotypes - the specific list of charateristics that descibe the prototype |
| deixus | when the referent of a word changes depending upon place relationships |
| truth conditions | analytic contradictory, synthetically |
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