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Words, Dictionaries and the Mental Lexicon :fountain_pen: - Coggle Diagram
Words, Dictionaries and the Mental Lexicon :fountain_pen:
What’s a word?
A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.
Words, considered as symbols for humans, provide us with endlessly flexible conditional semantic stimuli
In grammar, the term ‘word’ encapsulates two crucial components
Syntax
The ways that words can be put together, in order to make sentences.
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Dictionaries
We need to think about how dictionaries come to be, and how much we credit them with the authority to decide what’s a word.
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The dictionary can be an extremely useful learning resource, especially as it makes the learner more independent of the teacher.
Dictionaries do not fix or codify the words of a language, but rather reflect the words that native speakers use.
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