Vocabulary: March 25 entry ticket

Knowing the word involves

• understanding its meaning.

• knowing the form, meaning and use of the word.

• knowing all its homophones.

Knowing the form of a word involves

• knowing its pronunciation, stress and spelling.

• knowing the constraints on its use.

• understanding its synonymy.

The relationship between a word and its referent is

• charted on a semantic grid.

• fuzzy.

• arbitrary.

The meaning is

• described by the prototype theory.

• flexible.

• concept-related.

The core meaning is

• encyclopedic knowledge.

• idiosyncratic to each individual.

• fundamental meaning of a word.

Nouns, adjectives and verbs

• have their own kinds of organisation.

• are represented in tree diagrams.

• are organised into shallow hierarchies.

animal - dog is

• hyponymy

• meronymy

• troponymy