English Words

Voiceless
A sound produced without vibration of the vocal cords. Consonants like
[f s t h ?] are voiceless.
Wernicke’s area
The part of the brain that deals with understanding speech and finding
vocabulary items for use in sentence production.
Word
The smallest linguistic unit capable of standing meaningfully on its own
in the grammar of a language 
see also
Lexical item, Grammatical
word
and 
Word-form
.
Word-class
This refers to what is more traditionally called ‘parts of speech’, i.e. a
set of words that can occupy the same syntactic positions, e.g.
determiners, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions.
Word-form
A form realising a word in speech (
see
Phonological word
) or writing
see
Orthographic word
.
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