SEMANTICS LEXICAL RELATIONS (CONTINUED)

What is a sense relation?

• A syntactic relationship between sentences

• A paradigmatic relation between words or predicates

• A phonetic relationship between sounds

• A grammatical relation between phrases

Which of the following is an example of synonymy?

• Tall and short

• Fast and slow

• Big and large

• Cat and dog

What is polysemy?

• Words that have more than one meaning

• Words that have only one meaning

• Words that have opposite meanings

• Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently

Which of the following is an example of hyponymy?

• Red and yellow are not related

• Color is a hyponym of yellow

• Color is a hyponym of red

• Red is a hyponym of color

What is a key feature of a metaphor?

• It uses words like "as" or "like" to compare things

• It compares things without using "as" or "like"

• It only appears in literary texts

• It describes physical events in the material world

What are gradable antonyms?

• Words that are at opposite ends of a continuous scale of values

• Words that mean exactly the same thing

• Words that have no opposite meaning

• Words that are unrelated in meaning

What is a prototype in categorization?

• A hierarchy of unrelated concepts

• A word with multiple meanings

• A set with central, typical features

• A peripheral, unrelated concept

What does categorization refer to in the context of language?

• The study of word pronunciation

• The process of forming new words

• The use of language to express emotions

• The process of using language to classify the world

What is a converse relationship between lexemes?

• When two lexemes describe the same relationship in reverse order

• When two lexemes are unrelated

• When two lexemes have identical meanings

• When two lexemes have opposite meanings

What is an antonym?

• A word that has the same meaning as another word

• A word with multiple meanings

• A word that has the opposite meaning to another word

• A word with no meaning