精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英语词汇学复习资料 Chapter 11. Word A word is a minimal free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.2. There is no logical relationship between sound and meaning as the symbolic connection between them is arbitrary and conventional. E.g. “woman” means Frau in German, Femme in French and Funv in Chinese. On the other hand, the same sound /rait/ can mean right, rite and write, though denoting different things, yet have t