double articulation

Meaning

Noun

  • property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes

Origin

  • The concept was introduced in 1960 by the French linguist AndrĂ© Martinet.

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