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The document discusses the problem of defining the word in Vietnamese. It notes that Vietnamese is often described as a "monosyllabic" language, but that this characterization is an oversimplification. While many Vietnamese words are single syllables, some consist of multiple syllables that form a meaningful unit. The author examines previous analyses of the Vietnamese word and proposes that disyllabic words formed through reduplication provide evidence that not all syllables function independently as words

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BurinNguyen

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EN