| 释义 |
non-diˈstinctive, a. Linguistics.
[non- 3.]
Not distinctive (see distinctive a. 1 b).
1916Jones & Plaatje Sechuana Reader p. xiv, The consonant sounds c, ɹ̄, ɥ, and the vowel sound ʉ are probably ‘non-distinctive’... By this we mean that the substitution of the sounds t, l, w, u respectively..would probably never change the meaning of any word. 1933,1942[see distinctive a. 1 b]. 1964L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 92 There is of course a great deal of grammatically non-distinctive variation in utterance. |