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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

double articulation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English

Syllables
dou-ble ar-tic-u-la-tion
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Etymology

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

Usage

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does double articulation mean?
property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes
Where does double articulation come from?
The concept was introduced in 1960 by the French linguist André Martinet.

How to pronounce double articulation

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