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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def word_starts(self):
 """The list of start positions representing ``words`` layer elements."""

        if not self.is_tagged(WORDS):
            self.tokenize_words()
        return self.starts(WORDS)