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Words
an important component of our mental grammar in our linguistic knowledge.
Morphology
study of the internal structure of words and the rules governing their formation in a language.
spoken language and print media
the number of words rides if the child is exposed to
content words
belong to the major parts of speech that represent ideas, actions, objects, and attributes
Morphology
understand how words enter a language what they consist of, how prefix, suffix and root combined to form words.
60,000 words;
typical high school graduate knows about
13,000 words
A child of six who starts school knows as many as
Orthography / Spelling
literate speaker of a language also stores information on how the words they know are spelled
Grammatical Category
identifies the grammatical class of the word.
Pronunciation and Meaning
Each word consists of a unit of sound value, so every word in our lexicon is stored together with a pronunciation and a meaning.
lexicon
long list of words for every language or mental dictionary
open-class words and closed-class words
another call for content words and function words
two classes of words
content words and function words
chance
a random association between sounds and meaning is often present based on
Content words
major part of speech that represent ideas, actions, objects, and attributes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)
Open-class words
add new words to this words class
Function words
do not have clear lexical meanings or obvious related concepts
closed class or function word
lexcilly unproductive nd usually invariable in form
function words
part of limited number of fixed items, debt owed grammatical relations and have little or no semantic content, connector of words and phrases
content words
nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are part of what word class?
function words
quantifiers, demonstratives, articles, pronouns, conjunction snd preposition is part of what word class?
talk about part of speech in language studies