Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes

Translations

3 languages

Origin

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

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

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See also

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