Good enough considers that these five dimensions or components-sex, generation, linearity, bifurcation, and seniority-are sufficient to, define the kinship terms of any language. That is, they reflect all the defining distinctions that people anywhere make within this semantic field. These dimensions thus specify the distinctions a child must learn in order to, fully understand kinship terms.

It is claimed that semantic feature descriptions have same sort of psychological validity-that is, they reflect the information that is associated with the words by most people. They also, express relevant generalizations about the semantic structure of the vocabulary described, such as the following:

1. A ward is semantically ambiguous if it has mare than one complex of semantic features assigned to, it.
2. Two, words are synonymous if their meanings consist of the same semantic features.
3. Two, words are antonyms if their meanings are identical except that the meaning of one has a component C where the other has C, and C and C' belong to, a particular subset of mutually exclusive components. (For example, male and female. Therefore boy and girl, mother and father, etc., are antonym pairs.)
4. If ward X has all the semantic features that ward Y has, and same additional ones, then ward X is mare specific than ward Y. Far example, the ward parent has the features of generation +1 and direct linearity, but it is nat specified an the sex dimension. The words father and mother have all the features of parent, plus an additional one; therefore, they are mare specific terms.
5. Semantic feature analysis also, has been used in determining the acceptability of combinations of words, since the combination of words with certain types of conflicting features is nat semantically acceptable (e.g., colorless green).

An analysis of words into, semantic features, then, gives us same way of dividing the information represented by a ward into, simpler, mare basic units. These can then be used to, determine the relationship of that ward to, other words. That is, combinations of semantic features represent the knowledge about ward meanings that one needs in order to, language. We now turn to, a discussion of haw the child acquires and uses this knowledge.