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holophrastic
hol·o·phras·tic H0244400 (hŏl′ə-frăs′tĭk, hō′lə-)adj.1. Polysynthetic.2. Of or relating to the stage of child language development characterized by the use of single-word utterances. [holo- + Greek phrastikos, expressive (from -phrastos, speakable, thought of, from phrazein, to show; see gwhren- in Indo-European roots).]holophrastic (ˌhɒləˈfræstɪk) adj1. (Linguistics) denoting the stage in a child's acquisition of syntax when most utterances are single words2. (Linguistics) (of languages) tending to express in one word what would be expressed in several words in other languages; polysynthetic[C19: from holo- + Greek phrastikos expressive, from phrazein to express] |