LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Flying Pig, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
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Lexical decomposition: analyzing a word"s meaning by breaking it down into its semantic components or features, ex. Uncle, nephew, father, son: male relatives (kinship: ex. Ewe, vixen, mare, hen, doe: female animals: ex. Puppy, kitten, chick, calf, foal: young animals: antonyms differ in just one semantic feature, hyponyms of a hypernym share semantic feature(s, evidence for some semantic relations between words, slips of the tongue (performance errors) Fruits, vegetables, animals, tools: they could name a cat and dog and table but they forget what the name a fruit or vegetable. Shows that we store different words under different categories. The individual parts will have meanings but those parts will change the meaning of the whole sentence. Syntactic organization is relevant for sentence meaning: exceptions to compositionality, anomaly: when phrases are well-formed syntactically but not semantically (they don"t make sense, ex.
