There are ______ free morphemic words in the following words: bird, man, red, turn.（      ）

A. 1

 B. 2

C. 3

 D. 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the associative meaning of a word? (      )

A. Grammatical meaning. 

B. Stylistic meaning.

C. Collocative meaning.

D. Connotative meaning.

The word “AIDS” is a(n) ________. (      )

A. initialism

 B. acronym

 C. derivative

 D. compound

Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______.(      )

A. form                                                

B. pronunciation
C. spelling                                             

D. meaning

___explains the connection between the literal sense and figurative sense of a word.

A. Onomatopoeic motivation 

B. Morphological motivation

C. Semantic motivation 

D. Etymological motivation