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Chapter 2 Basic concepts of words Exercises 1.?A word is?_______?of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function. A.?a minimal free form ?????????????????? B.?a smallest meaningful unit C.?an element which can not be further analyzed D.?a grammatically minimal form 2. The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always _______________. A. logical ????? B. arbitrary ?????? C. inherent ?????? ? D. automatic??? 3. In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by different sounds, which show __________. A.?the relationship between sound and meaning can not be established. B.?there are different logical relations between sound and meaning C.?the relation between sound and meaning is a matter of convention??? ????? D.?the concepts are not really the same?? 4. Words may fall into ___________. A. the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency B. content words and functional words by notion C. native words and borrowed words by origin. D. All of the above 5. Functional words do _______ work of expression in English on average than content words. A. far more???????? B. less C. equal?????????????????????? D. similar? 6. It is estimated that English borrowings constitute ______of the modern English vocabulary. A. 50 percent???? B. 50 percent?? C. 80 percent?? D. 65 percent?????????????? 7. The English alphabet was adopted from _______. A. Anglo-Saxon ???????B. the Romans? C. Greek???????????????? D. Sanscrit? T or F 1. A dog is called a “dog” because the sound and the three letters that make up the word automatically suggest the animal in question.???????????????????????????? 2. A word is a smallest meaningful unit that has a sound unity and a grammatical function.? 3. Vocabulary is a term that can only be used to refer to the total number of words in a language.? 4. .What is true of the basic word stock is also true of native words.? 5. As the chief fu