linguistic unit
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinguisticandunit
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linguistic
adjective
uk/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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unit
noun
uk/ˈjuː.nɪt/us/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflinguistic unit
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The syntactic force, on the other hand, strives to impose sentencehood upon thelinguisticunit.
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The alternative hypothesis is that schwa epenthesis does involve insertion of somelinguisticunit.
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However, such a proliferation of representations (for one and the samelinguisticunit) should not be accepted too lightly.
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Moreover, it has been demonstrated that phonological awareness is sensitive to at least two factors: the size of thelinguisticunitand the linguistic context.
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What it does is provide variation between alternative versions of the "same"linguisticunitwithin a single speaker.
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But this is quite different from the kind of motivation usually offered for the morpheme as alinguisticunit.
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On the other hand, if schwa epenthesis involves the insertion of somelinguisticunit, such as the schwa phoneme, one would expect allophonic variation in the \\l\\.
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This is because parallel spreading activation networks encode eachlinguisticunitonce in the network, and so repetition can only occur by repeatedly activating a unit.
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These data are suggestive of the structuralist idea that the range of interpretations alinguisticunit can assume is determined by the forms it stands in contrast with.
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So, arguments about the theoretical status of the syllable as alinguisticunitnotwithstanding, there are good practical, engineering reasons for seeking powerful algorithms to syllabify words.
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Most error processes take place within the confines of the word and should thus be defined with reference to the word as the pertinentlinguisticunit.
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Almost every theory agrees on the existence of a minimal unit, generally associated with one coherent propositional content, and generally matching alinguisticunitin the shape of a proposition.
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Features were selected because the variable, as defined here, does not constitute a wholelinguisticunitor segment, but a cluster of features that defines only the handshape.
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On the one hand, there is a morphological force which strives to impose wordhood upon thelinguisticunitwhereby the coherence between the two morphemes is increased.
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So with a word (or otherlinguisticunit) the meaning (apprehended content) and the sound come together to make a sign.
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It often indicates that two superficially different elements are in fact the samelinguisticunitat a deeper level.
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None of these ethnicities corresponds to alinguisticunit.
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Outside phonology, economy is evident in many domains of grammar in which categories generalise across linguistic units.
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The contribution of conversational exchanges to the identification of linguistic units during acquisition has been echoed in different ways by other researchers since.
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Most current lexical models suggest that lexical organization is sensitive to the distribution of linguistic units in the input.
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