double articulation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

double articulation (uncountable)

(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
Spanish: doble articulación

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