SP - Session 2

Multiple Choice

What semantic field do the following words belong to? golden, glow, shimmering

• light

• water

• sadness

• speed

Multiple Choice

What semantic field do the following words belong to? bright, reflecting, blinding, illuminated

• violence

• speed

• light

• night

Multiple Choice

What semantic field do the following words belong to? wave, turquoise, crystal

• sadness

• light

• water

• speed

Multiple Choice

Create semantic fields for the following concepts: Technology

• Computer , television , pasta , cable , floor

• Computer, cellphone , table , school

• Technical , Techno, Tactical , Theatre

• Cellphone , Bluetooth, tablet , iphone

Multiple Choice

Choose the concept that correctly groups the semantic field.

watery, wet, diluted, runny

• fluid

• solid

• gaseous

Multiple Choice

Choose the concept that correctly groups the semantic field.

smash, strike, break, hit, destroy

• grace

• violence

• sound

• party

Multiple Choice

Choose the concept that correctly groups the semantic field

feline, puss, kitten, meow

• stages of life

• mammals

• cats

• animal

Multiple Choice

What semantic field do the following words belong to?

ocean , river, pond

• light

• bodies of water

• sadness

• places

Multiple Choice

What semantic field do the following words belong to? red, orange , black , yellow

• sadness

• colors

• adjectives

• names

Multiple Choice

Which of the semantic fields do the following words belong to?

pencil, notebook, bell

• light

• places

• school

• speed

Multiple Choice

Which of the semantic fields do the following words belong to?

wolf, terror, nocturnal

• The night

• speed

• violence

• water

Open Ended

Exercise 4: Organize the given words (and probably those of your own) into three semantic fields: shirts, end, short, forward(s), long, hats, lend, coats, shorts, beginning, trousers, amble, out, limp, tiptoe, plod, socks, trudge, borrow, stomp, in, stump, backward(s), and tramp.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a type of reference?

• referent

• variable reference

• constant reference 

• same reference

Multiple Choice

Reference is the relationship between words and the things, actions, events, and qualities they stand for.

• Right
• Wrong

Multiple Choice

Can different expressions have the same referent?

• Yes
• No

Multiple Choice

What deals with relationship with language ad the world?

• Sense

• Reference

Multiple Select

Identify the referents in the given sentence:

The boat sailed on the river.

• The boat sailed on the river

• The boat

• the river

• on

Multiple Choice

What decides the constancy of reference?

• Time

• place

• context

• situation

• all the above

Multiple Choice

Which of the following most appropriately describes reference?

• Reference is a relationship between sentences and the world.

• Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions and things in the world.

• Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things outside the context of the utterance.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a correct statement about sense?

• All words in a language may be used to refer, but only some words have sense.

• If two expressions have the same reference, they always have the same sense.

• The sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related expressions in the same language.

Multiple Choice

The type of reference in which the referent varies with speaker is

• constant reference

• same reference

• variable reference

• no reference

Multiple Choice

The type of reference in which different expressions are used to refer to the same object is

• constant reference

• variable reference

• same reference

• no reference

Multiple Choice

The type of reference in which the same expression always refers to the same object is

• same reference

• variable reference

• constant reference

• no reference

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a correct description of 'sense'?

• all words in a language may be used to refer, but only some words have sense

• If two expressions have the same referent, they always have the same sense.

•  the sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related

• expression in the same language

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a correct description of 'reference'?

• a relationship between expressions and other expressions which have the same

• the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression

•  the relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick that object out

Multiple Choice

What is identified by the word mean or meaning in the following examples, i.e. reference or sense?

When Albert talks about “his former friend”, he means   me.

• reference

• sense

Multiple Choice

What is identified by the word mean or meaning in the following examples, i.e. reference or sense?

Daddy, what does logic mean?

• reference

• sense

Multiple Choice

What is identified by the word mean or meaning in the following examples, i.e. reference or sense?

Purchase has the same meaning as buy.

• reference

• sense

Multiple Choice

What is identified by the word mean or meaning in the following examples, i.e. reference or sense?

Look up the meaning of democracy in your dictionary.

• reference

• sense

Multiple Choice

What is identified by the word mean or meaning in the following examples, i.e. reference or sense?

If you look out of the window now, you’ll see who I   mean.

• reference

• sense