double articulation

English

Etymology

The concept was introduced in 1960 by the French linguist André Martinet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

double articulation (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes

Translations

property of speech

• Catalan: doble articulació
• Finnish: kaksoisjäsennys
• French: double articulation
• Polish: podwójna artykulacja f
• Spanish: doble articulación