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