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Defining the term word
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Defining the term word What is a word? What is the definition of the term word? All these deceptively simple questions have led to debate among linguists. At its most simple, according to "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics", by David Crystal, a word is "a unit of expression which has universal intuitive recognition by native speakers". However a word is so much more than that. The first difficulty in defining what the term "word" is that it has more than one definition. In fact, traditionally, there are three completely different and exclusive definitions for the term "word". To understand the difficulties in defining and differentiating the meanings of the term "word" we must first discuss each of the senses of the term. The first sense of the term "word" is known as word form. In word form, a word is a unit that can be physically defined, be it...
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