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Chapter 1 The Basic Concepts of Words and Vocabulary 1、The Definition of a Word Lexicology focuses on the study of meanings and origins of words. According to semanticists, a word is a unit of meaning. A word is a minimal（最小的） free form of a language that has a given sound, meaning and syntactic function（句法功能）. 2、?All the words in a language make up what is generally known as its vocabulary. 3、?Sound and MeaningThe relationship between sound and meaning is no logic 4、?Sound and FormThere was more agreement between sound and form in Old English than in Modern English. With the development of