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Quiz por Claudia Leyra, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Claudia Leyra
mais de 8 anos atrás
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Questão 1
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Semantics is...
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The study of meanign in language.
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The study of composition of words in a language.
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The study of sense.
Questão 2
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This is what a speaker means when he/she uses a piece of language.
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Sentence meaning
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Speaker meaning
Questão 3
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This is what a sentence or word means.
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Sentence/word meaning
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Speaker meaning
Questão 4
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A theory is...
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The one that deals with semantic facts abput meaning, such as those stated in the true statements above.
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It is a precisely specified, coherent, and economical framework of independent statements and definitions, constructed so that as large a number as possible of particular basic facts can either be seen to follow it or be describable in terms of it.
Questão 5
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Can a semantics theory include the study of syntax (grammar) and phonetics (pronunciation) besides the study os meanig?
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Yes
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No
Questão 6
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This is a stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the part of that person. It is the use of a particular speaker, on a particular occasion, of a piece of language, such as a sequence of sentences, or a single phrase, er even a single word.
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Sentence
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Utterance
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Proposition
Questão 7
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Is "Not much" an example of an utterance?
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Yes
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No
Questão 8
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It is considered as a strig of words put together by the grammatical rules of a language, it can be thought as the ideal string of words behind various realizations in utterances and inscriptions.
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Utterance
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Sentence
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Proposition
Questão 9
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Is "John" an example of a sentence?
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Yes
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No
Questão 10
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It is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs.
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Sentence
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Utterance
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Proposition
Questão 11
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Can an utterance be loud and quiet?
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- True
- False
Questão 12
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Can a sentence be loud and quiet?
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- True
- False
Questão 13
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Can propositions be loud and quiet?
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- True
- False
Questão 14
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Can utterances be grammatical or not?
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- True
- False
Questão 15
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Can sentences be grammatical or not?
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- True
- False
Questão 16
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Can propositions be grammatical or not?
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- True
- False
Questão 17
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Can utterances be true or false?
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- True
- False
Questão 18
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Can sentences be true or false?
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- True
- False
Questão 19
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Can propositions be true or false?
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- True
- False
Questão 20
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Can utterances be in a particular regional accent?
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- True
- False
Questão 21
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Can sentences be in a particular regional accent?
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- True
- False
Questão 22
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Can propositions be in a particular regional accent?
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- True
- False
Questão 23
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Can utterances be in a particular language?
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- True
- False
Questão 24
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Can sentences be in a particular language?
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- True
- False
Questão 25
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Can propositions be in a particular language?
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- True
- False
Questão 26
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By means of referece the speaker indicates which things in the world (including people) are being talked about.
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Yes
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No
Questão 27
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How do we call the relationship between parts of a language and thigs outside the language?
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Reference
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Referent
Questão 28
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How do we call the escence of a word or an expression? it also can be described as the description or the meaning of a word or of an expression.
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Meaning
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Sense
Questão 29
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This is the description of a word that you can find in a dictionary?
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Sense
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Meaning
Questão 30
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Considering the following examples:
I have an account in the Bank of Scotland.
She banked the furnance up with coke last night.
Can a word have more than one sense?
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Yes
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No
Questão 31
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In the following example "A man was here looking for you last night"... is "a man" a referring expression?
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Yes
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No
Questão 32
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An __________ ______________ is a part of a sentence which could be made into a complete sentence by the addition of a referring expression, but where the addition of different referring expressions, even though they refer to the same thing or person, in a given situation, will yield sentences with DIFFERENT meaning when uttered in a given situation.
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EQUATIVE SENTENCE
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OPAQUE MEANING
Questão 33
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Opaque contexst involve typically a certain kind of verb... Which are these verbs? Choose two options.
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want, believe
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smile, refer
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push, thank
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think, wonder about
Questão 34
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Select the sentences with "equative sentences" in them.
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Claudia Leyra is your semantics teacher.
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Christian's brother is Sofi's brother too.
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Diego is my semantics student.
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Toluca is the Capital of the State of Mexico
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Briseida hit the woman next to her.
Questão 35
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This word or group of words make the most specific contribution to the meaning of the sentece.
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Utterance
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Proposition
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Predicator
Questão 36
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Which is the predicator in: Mummy is asleep.
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Mummy
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is
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asleep
Questão 37
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An argument is a role played by referring expressions... So, choose the arguments for the sentence below:
Juan arrested Pablo.
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Juan, Pablo
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arrested
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Juan
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Pablo
Questão 38
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In which of the followng sentences does the predicate male functions as a predicator? Choose the best options.
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The male gorilla at the zoo had a nasty accident yesterday.
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The gorilla at the zoo is a male.
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The gorilla at the zoo is male.
Questão 39
Questão
Choose from the following strings of language the one that is a sentence.
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I would like a cup of coffee
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Coffee, please
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In the kitchen
Questão 40
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Do pavement and sidewalk have the same sense, but in different dialects of English?
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- True
- False
Questão 41
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Do sofa and coach have the same sense, but in different dialects of English?
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- True
- False
Questão 42
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Choose from the list below the words that can be used as referring expressions:
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The girl next to the window
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You and me
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Maria
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if
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John
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I
Questão 43
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Choose the words that could refer of things in the world?
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We
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Singing
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Sleeping
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The man
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The clasroom
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My shoes
Questão 44
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The incomplete sentence “Wili thinks… is a smart person” constitutes…
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an equative sentence
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an opaque context
Questão 45
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In Claudia is Mexican… the predicator is Mexican, and the argument is Claudia.
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- True
- False
Questão 46
Questão
Choose the sentence that has a verb with a three-place predicate:
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Felipe gave Alfonso
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Felipe gave a nice present
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Felipe gave Alfonso a nice present
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Felipe gave
Questão 47
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Choose the generic sentences from the sentences below:
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Gentlemen prefer blondes
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David is a twit
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The male of the species guard the eggs
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A bee builds up a honeycomb in a tree
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A wasp just stung me on the neck
Questão 48
Questão
Choose the deictic words from the list below.
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I
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are
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Leticia
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there
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under
Questão 49
Questão
Which of the following sentences has a direct quotation:
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a) John “I like your trainers”.
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b) John said he liked my trainers.
Questão 50
Questão
Choose the best option of the deictical transformation in the following sentence:
Alfonso: “I have too much work to do at the office”
He said he had too much work to do at the office.
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I-he / have-had
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He-said/ work-office
Questão 51
Questão
Which sentence below shows "definiteness"?
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The world is unique in the universe.
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A planet is part of the solar system.
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