misgenerate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To generate incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "The evidence was misinterpreted —aside from the fact that it was misgenerated in terms of research design — and that misinterpretation was replicated in study after study after study for about 35 years."
- "A child who encounters English (1) and mistakenly takes it to be a V2 construction would acquire the wrong grammar and would then misgenerate V2 sentences that are ungrammatical in English (e.g., *Me saw John, with the object in SpecCP)."
- "In the case of cyclicity what requires an explanation is why a grammar of English, which incorporates (53) in some form, does not misgenerate all the SCC violations discussed above."