Chapter词汇学精要.pptVIP

Review Answer the following questions: What is a word? A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound, meaning and syntactic function 2. What is the relation between sound and meaning of a word? A word is a symbol that stands for something else in the world Arbitrary and conventional: no logical relationship, people of the same speech community have agreed to use the sound to refer to the entity. ?Iconicity:?There is?similarity?between sound and meaning. What are the characteristics of the basic word stock? All