CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

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The meaning of words, phrases and sentences in a particular language is known as
A
Pragmatics
B
Syntax
C
Semantics
D
Morphology
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, sentences and text. This can be broken down into subcategories such as formal semantics (logical aspects of meaning), conceptual semantics (cognitive structure of meaning) and today’s focus of lexical semantics (word and phrase meaning).

Detailed explanation-2: -semantics, also called semiotics, semology, or semasiology, the philosophical and scientific study of meaning in natural and artificial languages. The term is one of a group of English words formed from the various derivatives of the Greek verb sēmainō (“to mean” or “to signify”).

Detailed explanation-3: -Semantics: It is the part of linguistics that deals with the study and analysis of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in a language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lexical semantics is the study of word meaning, whereas phrasal semantics is the study of the principles which govern the construction of the meaning of phrases and of sentence meaning out of compositional combinations of individual lexemes.

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