Word
In linguistics, a word of a spoken language can be defined as the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning.
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Lemma (morphology)
In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of words.
English orthography
Writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
Writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.
Phoneme
In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
Lexeme
Unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection.
Unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection.
It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word.
Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
Orthography
For the type of projection, see Orthographic projection.
For the type of projection, see Orthographic projection.
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.
Spoken language
Language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language.
Language produced by articulate sounds, as opposed to a written language.
Both vocal and sign languages are composed of words.
Noun
A noun is a word that generally functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.
Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).