单词 | t-unit |
释义 | > as lemmasT-unit T-unit n. [terminable adj.] Linguistics a minimal terminable unit (see quot. 1965). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > minimal sequence nucleus1932 minimal (also minimum) terminable unit1965 T-unit1965 1965 K. W. Hunt Gram. Structure written at Three Grade Levels iii. 21 These units might be christened ‘minimal terminable units’, since they would be minimal as to length, and each would be grammatically capable of being terminated with a capital letter and a period. For short, the ‘minimal terminable unit’ might be nicknamed a ‘T-unit’... T-unit will be the name used for it in this investigation. 1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) iii. 39 Writing of high quality can employ a simple style that would not necessarily yield a high score as measured by the T-unit. 1977 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1974 lxi/ lxii. 30 The transcripts of these interviews (exclusive of garbles and false starts) were marked off into T-units and the mean length of T-units was computed for each informant. < as lemmas |
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