LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noah Webster, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Word Family
6 Aug 2016
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What"s a word: difficult to define, an indivisible unit. Words added in a sentence are never added within another word: there is a potential pause before and after, not in the middle of a word. Coffee-break , cotton candy , sand-box , or pomme de terre . 20,000 active: b. a. college graduates know approximately 50,000 words, a native english speaker knows ~4000-5000 word families before kindergarten, 1000 new word families added every year to their vocabulary, university graduate. Approximately 20,000 word families: 43% of words = occurrences, 9 words = . You: frequency analysis of english language. The beginning of modern dictionary practice: the 18th century. Dictionaries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Difficulty defining the size of a lexicon. Chemical components: longest word 1,913 methionyl serase . The longest word currently listed in oxford dictionaries: lung-disease: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. Taxonomy of species used binomial nomenclature system: 2 words felis silvestris = wild cat.
