Words of the _______ word stock form the common core of the Englishlanguage.
noun
content
basic
function
Basic words are the words essential to native speakers'daily communication.Such words are characterized by __________.
all national character
variety
polysemy
productivity and collocability
Word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound,___________ and syntactic function.
Apart from the characteristics of basic vocabulary,native words have two otherfeatures, namely ___________
productivity and stability
neutrality in style and high frequency in use
collocability and polysemy
formality and arbitrariness
Sub-standard words often used on informal occasions are called ________
A crocodile much resembles an _______________ in appearance.
Contentwords include_________
adverbs
nouns
verbs
numerals
____________ form the mainstream of the basic word stock
Latin words
Danish words
Anglo-Saxon words
French words
Words that have rich notions are called __________ words.
Which is not the major causes of the differences between sound andform？
the stabilization of spelling byprinting, which breaks the synchronized change of sound and spelli
influence of the work of scribes,who deliberately changed the spellings of words
borrowing, which introduces many words which are against English rulesof pronunciation and spelling
There are more letters than phonemes in English
Sound and meaning are not intrinsically related and their connection is ___________and convention
Content words are numerous and changingall the time, while functional words are small in number and stable.
By_____,words fall into functional words and content words.
use frequency
origin
notion
word formation
In the West Indies the local name for a violent tropical cyclone is a_________.
The major modes of vocabulary development of contemporary are __________.
production
imagination
creation
orthography