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Information Content
info conveyed by or contained in a linguistic unit such as phrase, sent, or utterance.
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Sense
Aspect of meaning that is indep. of what it may refer to in real world. Speakers mental conception of word's meaning
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Reference
Particular entity (idea, obj) to which a word or linguistic expression relates.
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Which 2 aspects of linguistic meaning are complementary?
Sense and Reference
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What are the 3 aspects of linguistic meaning?
- info content
- sense
- reference
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compositional semantics
ways in which meanings of syntactic struture combine to determine meaning of phrases
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variable reference
reference of term (word or phrase) that does not always pick out or refer to same object.
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What is the drawback to theory of reference?
we need SENSE
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Mental image
Assoc. with word, typically has prototype
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Complementary Antonyms
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- pair of antonyms such that everything must be described by the first word, 2nd word, or neither.
- and such that saying of something that it is not a member of the set denoted by the first word implicates that it is in the set of denoted by the 2nd word.
ex)alive/dead, win/lose
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Reverses
Antonyms in which one word in the pair suggests movement that "undoes" the movement suggested by the other
ex)left/right, inside/outside
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Gradable
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words that are anytonyms and denote opposite ends of a scale. You can tell what is gradable if there can be an in between.
ex) wet/dry, easy/hard
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converses
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Antonym in which the first word of the pair suggests a point of view opposite to that of the 2nd word.
ex) lend/borrow, send/recieve
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What are the 4 types of antonyms?
- complementary pairs
- gradable
- reverses
- converses
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