| 单词 | minimal free form |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminimal free form a. Linguistics. Designating the smallest unit into which a linguistic element, structure, or utterance can be subdivided at a particular level of analysis. Frequently in minimal free form (originally minimum free form: see minimum n. and adj. Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1930 H. E. Palmer Princ. Romanization 52 We may designate by the term monophone any phone of the first or second degrees of abstraction of which the concrete members are so similar in point of production and of acoustic effect even when observed by a competent observer, that it may be regarded as a minimal unit of pronunciation (i.e. practically insusceptible of sub-division). 1951 Word 7 5 The simple term seme identifies any minimal feature of meaning. 1964 R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. 15 Morphemes..are the minimal units which carry meaning. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics v. 202 This and that may occur as minimal free forms, and so are classified as words. 1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 ii. 117 The minimal meaningful units, for languages which do have words, must be words (i.e., cannot be morphemes). < as lemmas |
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