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    LINGUISTIC UNIT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzedplay

    Synonyms:

    language unit; linguistic unit

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("linguistic unit" is a kind of...):

    component; component part; constituent; part; portion (something determined in relation to something that includes it)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic unit"):

    discourse (extended verbal expression in speech or writing)

    word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

    syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme)

    lexeme (a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; 'go' and 'went' and 'gone' and 'going' are all members of the English lexeme 'go')

    morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

    formative (minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function)

    name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

    collocation (a grouping of words in a sentence)

    phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)

    sign (a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified)

    Holonyms ("linguistic unit" is a part of...):

    string (a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.))

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