say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson, \A Word\ A particular string of sounds must be united with a meaning and a meaning must be united with specific sounds in order for the sounds or the meaning to be a word in our mental lexicon. A word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (2/3) lesser free forms; in brief

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