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reaˈdjustment
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. The process of readjusting or of being readjusted.
1771Smeaton in Phil. Trans. LXI. 208 After this re⁓adjustment they both agreed to 1°. 1793Wollaston ibid. LXXXIII. 149 It is very steady; and rarely wants any re⁓adjustment at all. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. xii. (1877) 129 Your theology needs alteration and readjustment. 1883Froude in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 194 The house..requiring paint and other re-adjustments.
2. Comb., as readjustment rule Linguistics (see quot. 1972).
1968Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern Eng. i. i. 10 The ‘readjustment rules’ relating syntax to phonology make various other modifications in surface structures. 1972R. A. Palmatier Gloss. Eng. Transformational Grammar 141 Readjustment rule,..one of a set of special rules which prepare the syntactic surface structure of a sentence for inputting to the phonological component; one of the types of phonological rules..which determine admissible, or possible, and inadmissible, or impossible, classificatory matrices. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 XXI. ii. 215 He also includes the suggestion, discussing Trager's similar analysis of short a in New Jersey English in 1940.., that such factors may be handled as a type of readjustment rule in the historical development of the phonology of a language. |