Word Meaning

To appear in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, ed. by Patrick Hogan. — 13 p.Word meaning relates to the semantic value that is conventionally associated with individual lexical items, which is to say __words__. For instance, the English lexical form cat, which may have the __phonetic__ realisation [kaet], is conventionally associated with a particular idea, namely an animate feline entity which has four legs, a tail, whiskers, and sounds miaow. To appear in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, ed. by Patrick Hogan. — 13 p. Word meaning relates to the semantic value that is conventionally associated with individual lexical items, which is to say words . For instance, the English lexical form cat, which may have the phonetic realisation [kaet], is conventionally associated with a particular idea, namely an animate feline entity which has four legs, a tail, whiskers, and sounds miaow.