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WorksheetsBasic concepts in semantics
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What term describes the way in which a word appears frequently along with certain other words?
Connotation
Denotation
Collocation
Entailment
What do we call the vocabulary that we can understand, but not use ourselves when speaking or writing?
Receptive vocabulary
Productive vocabulary
What do we call the vocabulary that we can understand when we hear or read it and can also use when we are speaking or writing?
Receptive vocabulary
Productive vocabulary
What is 'register' in linguistics?
The volume of a sound in comparison to others
The level of formality of speech or writing
The associations of a word in a particular subject
The frequency with which a word appears with other words
What are the components of denotation?
Left and right
Receptive and productive
Reference and sense
Intension and extension
What are function words?
Words which have mainly grammatical meaning
Words which have mainly semantic meaning
What are content words?
Words which have mostly grammatical meaning
Words which have mostly semantic meaning
What term does Nation use to refer to the amount of effort required to learn a word?
Learning effort
Learning time
Learning burden
Learning force
What do we call the limitations on the use of a word with relation to the contexts in which it can be used?
Semantic features
Homonymy
Semantic constraints
Semantic associations
What do we call the affective dimension of word meaning?
Denotation
Connotation
Association
Collocation
What do we call the real world object a word denotes?
Thing
Person
Event
Referent
These are the background assumptions a speaker makes about what is mutually known
Presuppositions
Entailments
This is a relationship between sentences, where the truth or one must necessarily imply the truth of the other.
Presupposition
Entailment
Which two areas of linguistics are concerned with the study of meaning?
Phonology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Which linguist is associated to the sentence 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously'?
Ferdinand de Saussure
Noam Chomsky
Charles Kreidler
John Saeed
