单词 | under-differentiation |
释义 | under-differentiationn. Linguistics. The incomplete differentiation of phonemic elements in a language, esp. in loanwords taken from a language in which certain phonemic distinctions do not correspond to those in the receiving language. Cf. differentiation n. 3b. ΚΠ 1953 U. Weinreich Lang. in Contact ii. 18 Under~differentiation of phonemes occurs when two sounds of the secondary system whose counterparts are not distinguished in the primary system are confused. 1962 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 7 82 These three types of substitution have been variously called..under-differentiation, over~differentiation, and reinterpretation. 1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 220 Underdifferentiation is the failure to distinguish two or more sounds of the donor language because of the existence of a single counterpart in the recipient language. 1983 Eng. World-wide 4 53 The orthography gives near maximum representation of significant sounds but allows for underdifferentiation in spelling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1953 |
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