While it would seem to be a relatively simple question, we don’t fully understand how to define the term “word”. We know that it is a smaller unit of speech, representing one unique meaning.
When we think of how to differentiate words from other elements of speech, we often tend to look at the written form. In a Western-centric point of view, we might theorise that words are separated from each other by spaces. But this doesn’t account for languages such as Japanese which don’t make that distinction.
Now I’ve got to look up how morphemes are defined again…
- Keywords: linguistics
- Source: Brain
- Related: Tokenization