What Is the Key Principle Behind Folk Theories of Word

question 113

Multiple Choice

What is the key principle behind folk theories of word meanings?

• A) Complex sentences have meanings that are often subject to ambiguous interpretation.
• B) Our knowledge of what things are at present restricts what they will always represent for us.
• C) Ambiguous sentences will always be interpreted in terms of what is most familiar to us.
• D) We will define members of a category in terms of what is most familiar to us.

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