Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial |
Professional items | World psychology | A word is a unit of
language that carries meaning and consists of one or more
morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together.
Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and zero or more
affixes. Words can be combined to create phrases, clauses and
sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined
together is called a compound. Difficulty in defining the term
Edit The precise definition of what a word is depends on which
language the definition is for, and the dividing line between
words and phrases is not always clear. In most writing systems,
a word is usually marked out in the text by interword separation
such as spaces or word dividers used in some languages such as
Amharic. In other languages such as Chinese and Japanese, and in
many ancient languages such as Sanskrit, word boundaries are not
shown. Even in writing systems that use interword separation,
word boundaries are not always