单词 | unmarkedness |
释义 | > as lemmasunˈmarkedness unˈmarkedness n. the state or quality of being unmarked (chiefly in sense 1c); cf. markedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > distinguishing feature > state of having or not having unmarkedness1847 markedness1968 1847 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. I. 60/2 Strenuous efforts are..made by dishonest dealers to pass off a four-year-old colt for a five-year-old horse; but these may be detected..by the smallness and unmarkedness of the corner nippers. 1969 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 35 63/2 Possibly such a specification—complete unmarkedness for pitch-level—could be permitted for non-tone languages, in which syllables as such do not have intrinsic pitch. 1988 J. Seidler tr. W. Mayerthaler Morphological Naturalness i. 9 Other cases in which the relative unmarkedness of a category results from the biological factors of the speaker..are easily found. 2007 Language 83 306 These vowels occur only when at least one of the surrounding consonants is a sonorant. Hall attributes this to the relative unmarkedness of vowel-sonorant overlap. < as lemmas |
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