... phonological, or spoken word. This is because of the visual spaces between words. However, even that is open to debate, as will be discussed later. In both forms, boundaries are identified by pauses and junctures between words. The second sense of the term "word" is known as the lexeme. "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" defines lexemes as being "the units of vocabulary". In addition, along with "Morphology", by Matthews, it states that lexemes are found in dictionaries as entries. The common factor among lexemes is the underlying set of forms. The lexeme is more abstract than the word form and pertains to the variants of the original form. For example, the lexeme work has the variants works, worked, working etc. The third and final sense of the term "word" is known as word. This sense refers to the grammatical unit. As such it is used in conjunction with the ...

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