What is a word?
A word is a minimal free form of a large of a language that has a given sound, meaning and syntactic fuwords by adding affixes to stems. Affixation includes prefixation and suffixation according to the types of affixes used to form new words.
Prefixaton as to create new words by adding prefixes to bases while suffixation makes new words by adding suffixes to bases.
Conversion is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class
Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two or a word plus a part of another word.
2. in what way are words related to vocabulary?
Vocabulary refers to the sum total of all the words in a language. In other words, vocabulary is composed of words and words make up vocabulary. If we compare vocabulary to a family, words are family members.
illustrate the relationship between sound and meaning with examples
sound is the physical aspect of a word an meaning is what the sound refers to . Sound and meaning are not intrinsically related and their connection is arbitrary and conventional. For example, tree/tri:/ means 树in English ,because the English speaking people have agreed to do so just as Chinese people use /shu/ to refer to the same thing. This explains why people of different language sue different sound to express the same concept. However, in the same language the same sound
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