word form


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the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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For example, nouns can be four ways ambiguous regarding their inflectional properties: the word form cloveka (from the lemma clovek / man) can function either as singular genitive or accusative, or the dual nominative or accusative.
And when volunteers listened to spoken sentences, all their brains showed similar responses in the visual word form area.
To facilitate morphological research, each record contains a word form, its reference, lemma, word class, and grammatical tag.
They showed the participants pairings of words, and used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to measure brain blood flow in an area in the left visual cortex called the "visual word form area" while the participants performed a reading task.
The response was significantly later in time than the left middle occipital gyrus, which peaked at approximately 115 ms, but not significantly different from the peak response in the left mid fusiform gyrus, which peaked at approximately 140 ms, at a location coincident with the fMRI-defined visual word form area (VWFA).
The new tests involve shifting the electrodes by 2-3cm to tackle a part of the brain called the "visual word form area" which recognises remembered words.
A frequency count showed that in the whole of description A, the word form "smiles" occurred forty times, and in B it occurred fourteen times.
This small area in the brain, called the visual word form area, is found in the left side of the visual cortex, opposite from the fusiform face area on the right side, which remembers how faces look.
The vitalometer is used in endodontic procedures to test tooth vitality; this is an example of a combining word form unique to dentistry.
Also to be developed is a plug-in version of the dictionary that would allow clicking oh Plains Cree words on a webpage and getting the English translation, irregardless of how the word form is inflected.
The purpose of the contrast is to remind us that the use of the word form is more related in the two than we often remember.