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关于词汇学的第一章知识 Chapter 1 Basic Concept of Words and Vocabulary，What are the reasons about differences in sound and form

Chapter 1 Basic Concept of Words and Vocabulary

• Sound and Form
  • 1.English alphabet
  • 2.Pronunciation has changed more rapidly than spelling
    • eg:ph-f
  • 3.Professional scribes
• Classification of Words
  • Basic and Non-basic Vocabulary
    • all national character,stability,productivity,polysemy,collocability
    • terminology,jargon,slang,argot,dialectal,archaisms,neologisms
  • Content Words and Functional Words
    • notional
    • empty
    • form
  • Native and Borrowed Words
    • orignated from Anglo-Saxon words
      • Neutrality in style
        • begin(native)-commence(borrowed)
      • Higher frequency in use
        • native words are used 70% to 90%
    • according to the degree of assimilation and manner
      • Denizens
      • Aliens
      • Translation loans
      • Semantic loans
• Sound and Meaning
  • no logical relationship between them,just conventional
  • It is only a symbolic connetion
  • In different languages, the same concept can be represented by different songs.
    • Woman becomes frau in German.
• Vocabulary
  • All the words in a language
    • the total number
    • used in a particulai historical period
• The Definition of a Word
  • A minimal form of a language with a sound and semantic unity that can function alone in a sentence.
• What are the reasons about differences in sound and form