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PAGE PAGE 1 Lecture 3 The Words of Language By Lan Chun (25 March, 2014) Warming-up question: What does knowing a word mean? Open and Closed Classes of Words Open classes include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The other syntactic categories, i.e. conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns and articles, are closed sets. The separation between “open” and “closed” classes of words has psychological and neurological validity. Word Sets Some words seem to be related to each other in a special way. phone phone phonetic phonetician phonetics phonology phonologist phonological phonic phoneme phon