word form
- noun
- /wɜrd fɔrm/
- Specialized
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forma de palabra
- In linguistics, a word form can refer to the variations of a verb depending on its tense.
- phonological word form
- word form representations
Examples
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Fast mapping involves the child attending to the word form and making an initial connection between the form and its potential meaning (Carey & Bartlett, 1978).
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As children develop, the quality of their phonological word-form representations evolves to include more detailed phonological information (Walley, 1988; Walley, Smith, & Jusczyk, 1986).
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And the yellow area is the word form area that does a lot to encourage fluent reading.
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In the present study, the children were asked to attend to word forms that were unfamiliar and then use the context of the passages to form hypotheses about the words' meanings.
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The phonetic plan is stored with its word form in the mental lexicon and includes an abstract representation of the stress pattern in the form of a metrical grid.
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The purpose of this study was to examine children's phonological word-form representations by studying the effects of onset and rhyme primes on lexical access.
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Through the use of cued shadowing, in this study we showed that phonological priming may be used to investigate the phonological word-form representations of preschool-age children.
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Children often learn new vocabulary by recognizing the word forms of nouns in their reading materials.
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The teacher explained how understanding the word forms can help students improve their writing skills.
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a particular spoken or written form of a word' is directly and compositionally derived from 'word' (a lexical item) + 'form' (a variant shape), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning. This noun‑noun combination follows a common, cross‑linguistic pattern (modifier + head) and is therefore transparent and predictable.
Etymology
The term word form gives a simple picture: a word can take a different form, like a person putting on different clothes. So a word form is one written or spoken 'shape' of a word, meaning one way the word looks or sounds.
