English Explanatory Dictionary

double articulation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes

Word forms

double articulation

Etymology

The concept was introduced in 1960 by the French linguist André Martinet.

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