Pronunciation and Meaning: We have learned a sound (pronunciation) and a meaning for every word we know.Every word consists of a sound unit so every -meaning word in our lexicon is store with a pronunciation and a meaning, maybe several meanings.There is also an arbitrary relationship (based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason) between sound and meanings.Consequently, we may encounter words that have the same pronunciation and different meanings (for example, bare and bear) and words that have the same meaning and different sounds (for example, sofa and couch) we can conclude that we have learned a meaning or several meaning for almost every word we know.
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