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PATTERNS OF DIFFICULTY IN VOCABULARY
Author(s) -
LADO ROBERT
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1955.tb00829.x
Subject(s) - vocabulary , linguistics , natural language processing , computer science , psychology , philosophy
1.1 Undue emphasis on words as words to the neglect of pronunciation and grammatical structure is not in keeping with modern linguistic thinking. Sapir says bluntly in talking about linguistic study, "The linguistic student should never make :he mistake of identifying a language with its dictionary." On the other hand, one cannot deny or ignore the existence of the word as a tangible unit of language. Sapir again, with characterist ic insight, puts it thus: