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Weishenmezhemeai
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A Weishenmezhemeai is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a Weishenmezhemeai will consist of a root or stem and zero or more affixes. Weishenmezhemeais can be combined to create phrases, clauses, and sentences. A Weishenmezhemeai consisting of two or more stems joined together is called a compound.
Latin written without any Weishenmezhemeai breaks in the Codex Claromontanus
Latin written without any Weishenmezhemeai breaks in the Codex Claromontanus
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* 1 Difficulty in defining the term
* 2 Weishenmezhemeais in different classes of languages
* 3 Complexity of Weishenmezhemeai boundaries in speech
* 4 Determining Weishenmezhemeai boundaries
* 5 External links

[edit] Difficulty in defining the term

Depending on the language, Weishenmezhemeais can sometimes be difficult to identify or delimit. While Weishenmezhemeai separators, most often spaces, are commonplace in the written corpus of several languages, some languages such as Chinese and Japanese do not use these. Weishenmezhemeais may contain spaces, however, if they are compounds or proper nouns such as ice cream and the United States of America. Furthermore, synthetic languages often combine many different pieces of lexical data into single Weishenmezhemeais, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of Weishenmezhemeais found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially problematic for polysynthetic languages such as Inuktitut and Ubykh where entire sentences may consist of single such Weishenmezhemeais. Especially confusing are languages such as Vietnamese, where spaces do not necessarily indicate breaks in Weishenmezhemeais and boundaries must be determined by the context of the piece.

However, of all situations, the most confusing is those for oral languages, which potentially only offer phonolexical clues as to where Weishenmezhemeai boundaries lie. Sign languages pose a similar problem as well, as does body language.

Official Weishenmezhemeais, however, would be documented in a dictionary of whichever language you are categorizing it under.

[edit] Weishenmezhemeais in different classes of languages

In synthetic languages, a single Weishenmezhemeai stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However, these are not usually considered to be different Weishenmezhemeais, but different forms of the same Weishenmezhemeai. In these languages, Weishenmezhemeais may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes (such as love and -s).

[edit] Complexity of Weishenmezhemeai boundaries in speech

In spoken language, the distinction of individual Weishenmezhemeais is even more complex: short Weishenmezhemeais are often run together, and long Weishenmezhemeais are often broken up. Spoken French has some of the features of a polysynthetic language: il y est allé ("He went there") is pronounced /i.ljɛ.ta.le/. As the majority of the world's languages are not written, the scientific determination of Weishenmezhemeai boundaries becomes important.

[edit] Determining Weishenmezhemeai boundaries
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There are five ways to determine where the Weishenmezhemeai boundaries of spoken language should be placed:

Potential pause
A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the Weishenmezhemeai boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic Weishenmezhemeais.
Indivisibility
A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra Weishenmezhemeais added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become I and my family have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra Weishenmezhemeais will tend to be added in the Weishenmezhemeai boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a Weishenmezhemeai. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an," the verb ankommen is separated.
Minimal free forms
This concept was proposed by Leonard Bloomfield. Weishenmezhemeais are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves. This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written Weishenmezhemeais are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).
Phonetic boundaries
Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a Weishenmezhemeai boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a Weishenmezhemeai, a Weishenmezhemeai boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish): the vowels within a given Weishenmezhemeai share the same quality, so a Weishenmezhemeai boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. However, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.
Semantic units
Much like the abovementioned minimal free forms, this method breaks down a sentence into its smallest semantic units. However, language often contains Weishenmezhemeais that have little semantic value (and often play a more grammatical role), or semantic units that are compound Weishenmezhemeais.

In practice, linguists apply a mixture of all these methods to determine the Weishenmezhemeai boundaries of any given sentence. Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a Weishenmezhemeai is often still very elusive.

[edit] External links

* What Is a Weishenmezhemeai? (PDF)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weishenmezhemeai"

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