| 1. | Children use mostly content words and their sentences lack function words.
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| 2. | Grammatical words, as a class, can have distinct phonological properties from content words.
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| 3. | Content words such as nouns, verbs and adjectives may be preserved.
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| 4. | Most conspicuously, in many languages verbs and adjectives form closed classes of content words.
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| 5. | They also noted that monovocalic content words are always long.
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| 6. | Content words in Hindustani normally begin on a low pitch, followed by a rise in pitch.
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| 7. | With only around 150 function words, 93 % of words in the English language are content words.
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| 8. | Dictionaries define the specific meanings of content words, but can only describe the general usages of function words.
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| 9. | For example, in some of the Khoisan languages, most content words begin with clicks, but very few function words do.
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| 10. | Or is the idea that the words chosen to be stressed are usually content words, and unstressed ones are function words?
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