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[
dih-
mahr
-key-tiv
,
dee
-mahr-key-
]
de·mar·ca·tive
/
dɪˈmɑr
keɪ
tɪv
,
ˈdi
mɑrˌkeɪ-
/
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[
dih-
mahr
-key-tiv
,
dee
-mahr-key-
]
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adjective
Linguistics
.
(of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive
word
in an utterance, as word-initial
stress
in Hungarian or
penultimate
stress in Polish.
Also,
de·mar·ca·tion·al.
Origin:
1950–55;
demarcate
+
-ive
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Demarcative
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any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence
an expression exhibiting constructional homonymity or having two or more structural descriptions
conforming to the rules of a language
a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic
an area of human experience or perception that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary
the thing or concept denoted by a sign
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