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    This document contains a chapter on word meaning from a semantic textbook. It provides 4 exercises for students to practice analyzing semantic features and relations between words. The exercises ask students to identify shared semantic features between groups of words, identify semantic properties of individual words, organize words into semantic fields, and write meaning postulates for sense relations between word pairs.

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    This document contains a chapter on word meaning from a semantic textbook. It provides 4 exercises for students to practice analyzing semantic features and relations between words. The exercises ask students to identify shared semantic features between groups of words, identify semantic properties of individual words, organize words into semantic fields, and write meaning postulates for sense relations between word pairs.

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    Teacher in charge: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, MTESOL SEMANTIC – CHAPTER 1

    CHAPTER 1: WORD MEANING


    REVISION
    1. What semantic feature(s) do the words in each group share?
    a. engineer, teacher, driver, girl, uncle
    b. ice cream, avocado, soup, corn, beef
    c. tigress, doe, girl, actress, debutante
    d. man, woman, mare, bull, ewe
    e. poodle, Alsatian, Labrador, collie, dachshund
    2. Identify the semantic properties of the following words:
    a. Soldier f. Spinster
    b. Girl g. Home
    c. Man h. Stallion
    d. Mare i. Kitten
    e. Rose j. Plod
    3. Organize the given words into semantic fields:
    a. child, actress, doe, oak, plod, stump, elm, ash, ewe, tiptoe, trudge
    b. Shirts, end, forwards, new, hats, beginning, lend, borrow, socks, backwards, old

    4. Write meaning postulates to account for the sense relations between the following
    pairs
    a. Pass – fail
    b. same – different
    c. Water – liquid
    d. Own – belong to

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