0 a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken or written: --
1 a short discussion or statement: --
The critics didn't have a good word to say about the performance.
We exchanged a few words as we were coming out of the meeting.
So far there have been more words than action on the matter of childcare provision.
Words were exchanged (= people argued) and then someone threw a punch.
Both competitors had words (= argued) after the match.
Could you have a quiet word with Mike (= gently explain to him) about the problem?
3 a promise: --
4 an order: --
5 to choose the words you use when you are saying or writing something: --
Accessing conceptual representations for words in a second language.
Do bilinguals activate phonological representations in one or both of their languages when naming words?
But this doesn't necessarily mean that the locus of thought is natural language representations (words, syntax, phonology).
In the model, word final stops and fricatives were given weaker representations in the normal case to reflect their lower salience.
Thus, changes in known lexical representations may lead to changes in homonym learning but not novel word learning.
First, word forms can be accessed and recognized via the mental representations of their constituent morphemes.
This could be due to a purely syntactic difference between number words and adjectives.
Phonetic transcription reveals that many of children's early uses of wh- words are phonetically reduced and part of fixed sequences.