nonword
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See also: non-word
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonword (plural nonwords)
- Alternative spelling of non-word
- 2000, Zevin and Joanisse, Orthographic and Metrical Cues to English Stress:
- We used a nonword naming task to examine how English speakers assign stress to novel phonological forms.
- 2004, Commentary on the 2004 African Scrabble Championships:
- Trevor quickly challenged my nonword and then cleverly played out with TITIAN