Behaviorism, Lexical Semantics:Fields and Collocations

Behaviorism, Lexical semantics:Fields and collocations

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Predisposing factors?
Consists of the entire life history of the speaker and hearer
The basic notions? (Skinner)
Stimulusresponsereinforcment
Saussere's notion of value?
Answer 3
Knight on a chess boardonly in relation to other figures it has meaning
Relations for De Saussere?
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic
Paradigmatic relations?
Those units which a linguistic unit enters through being contrasted or substitutable with other similar units.
Syntagmatic relations?
Those that a unit contracts via its cooccurence with similar units
2 dimensions or axes of structure:
vertical or paradigmaticthe horizontal or syntagmatic
With what are we concerned when dealing with lexical fields?
With paradigmatic relations
Lexical field?
Named area of meaning in which lexemes interrelate and define each other in specific ways
The most famous example of field theory?
Trier (1934)he compared German at two different period, showing different semantic field of the intellectual aspect
What did Danish linguist Hjelmslev compare?
color system of English and literary Welsh
Who discusses Mexican word "noise"?
Nida (1964)
3 variables in which color is described?
Hueluminosity or brightnesssaturation
Dani, a New Guinea lang has 2 basic color categories:
Milimola
Kay and McDaniel showed that color categ result from what?
1. the nature of the world (rainbow)2. human biology3. cognitive mechanism4. culture specific choice