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Markedness — Unmarked redirects here. For undecorated law enforcement vehicles, see Police car#Functional types. Markedness is a specific kind of asymmetry relationship between elements of linguistic or conceptual structure. In a marked unmarked relation, one … Wikipedia
markedness — noun The phenomenon of words, forms or phonemes that are considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than usual forms. Using the word comedienne instead of comedian can be seen as an example of markedness … Wiktionary
markedness — marked ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a visible mark or other identifying feature. 2) clearly noticeable. 3) singled out as a target for attack: a marked man. DERIVATIVES markedly adverb markedness noun … English terms dictionary
Markedness Model — The Markedness Model (sociolinguistic theory) proposed by Carol Myers Scotton is one account of the social indexical motivation for code switching. [1] The model holds that speakers use language choices to index Rights and Obligations (RO) Sets,… … Wikipedia
markedness — noun see marked … New Collegiate Dictionary
markedness — n. marked form, basic default form in Linguistics … English contemporary dictionary
markedness — mark·ed·ness … English syllables
markedness — kə̇dnə̇s noun ( es) : the quality or state of being marked; especially : distinctiveness … Useful english dictionary
Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order — “Frequency and pragmatically unmarked word order” is a paper by Matthew Dryer, published in 1995 within the compilation Word Order in Discourse , analyzing various definitions of markedness as it might apply to word order. It advanced a… … Wikipedia
Optimality theory — (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to outputs; typically, the … Wikipedia
