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Linguistics 200 Homework #4, Autumn 2008Semantics and Language Acquisition Name:___________________________Section: ____________

Part I: /hypernyms. For antonyms, state which kind of antonymy it is. For hypo-/hypernym pairs, state which For the following pairs of words, state whether they are synonyms, antonyms, or hypo- is the hyponym. Example: push / pull antonyms – reverse

1. insect / grasshopper
2. sloppy / neat
3. saunter / walk
4. passenger / chauffeur
   5. fork / utensil
   6. jump / leap
   7. sink / float
   8. fill / empty

Part II: Fill in the blanks.

9. a converse antonym of recieve is ________________________
10. a hyponym for instrument is ________________________
11. a complementary antonym for vacant is ________________________
12. a reverse antonym for insert is ________________________
13. a prototype of the class tool is ________________________
14. a graded antonym for clever is ________________________
15. a hypernym of tulip is ________________________
16. the word pants is a prototype of the class ________________________
17. a reverse antonym for raise is ________________________
18. a hypernym of triangle is ________________________

Part III: answer the following questions: Consider the following examples of children's speech taken from Clark (1995), and

[playing with a toy lawnmower][pretending to be superman] "I'm lawning""I'm supermanning" [realizing his father was joking][of food on his plate] "Daddy, you joked me.""I'm gonna fork this."

19. What type of phenomenon found in children's speech do these sentences exemplify?
20. In what ways are each of these examples ungrammatical compared to the adult norm?
21. What do the children not yet understand about lexical categories in English?
22. Which theory of language acquisition best accounts for these data, and why?
23. Name one theory of language acquisition for which this data presents a challenge. Why canthat theory not account for what the children are doing?