What does "double articulation" mean?

property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes

What is a synonym for "double articulation"?

Common synonyms include: affricate.

Double articulation

noun

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Definitions

Noun

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

affricate

Etymology

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

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