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Categories: Lexical units Syntactic entities Units of linguistic morphology Articles needing additional references from November 2006 Articles to be expanded since April 2008 All articles to be expanded |
Summary Of: WordTypically a word will consist of a... A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a... A word combined with another word or part of a word form a... the scientific determination of word boundaries becomes important... There are five ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed... words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence... that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be... a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable... the vowels within a given word share the same... so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes... idea of a lexical item being considered a word should also adjust to pragmatic criteria... mixture of all these methods to determine the word boundaries of any given sentence... the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive... character pronounced in the same way as the word the new character represents... single Chinese character as corresponding to a single word in the Chinese language... letters between two space marks as a single word in the English language... Word formation in English...Encyclodia Page On: Word |
