LING 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Binoculars, Innateness Hypothesis, Language Acquisition

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: kozma

Document Summary

Reference: things in the world that the word points to. Sense: inherent part of a word or phrases meaning (definition) Head of the executive branch of the us government (sense) *** the sense never changes, even when the reference does*** Synonym: two words that have the same meaning (extensions are identical) Hyponym: one word"s extension is a subset of another extension. Antonyms: words that mean the opposite of each other. Complementary antonyms: everything is one or the other. Gradable antonyms: words from 2 ends of a scale. Homonyms: words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. Ex) trunk (of an elephant), trunk (chest), and trunk (of a tree) or bear and bare. Non-intersective adjective: forms an expression that may include members of the set of nouns. Anti-intersective adjectives: forms an expression that must not include members of the set. Truth conditions: collection of all the situations in which the sentence is true.