| 单词 | word-initial |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-initial word-initial adj. and n. Linguistics (a) adj. occurring at the beginning of a word; (b) n. a letter or sound occurring in this position. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > letter or sound at beginning or end of word word-final1879 word-initial1889 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > within a word > in specific position word-final1879 word-initial1889 word-medial1935 1889 R. M'Lintock in Phonetische Studien 2 213 It..appears that when Mr Sweet says ‘initial’ he means, not ‘word-initial’, but ‘phrase-initial’. 1918 A. W. Aron in C. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 58 These variations in word-initial [in Irish] do depend on the phonetic character of the original preceding word-final. 1926 L. Bloomfield in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 29/2 English word-initial [st-]. 1981 Notes & Queries Oct. 398/1 A large number of unexplained intersubstitutions of c and g in word-initial position. 2007 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 1 Sept. 4 This would entail teaching children to identify rhymes, word-initial sounds and word-final sounds. < as lemmas |
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