demarcative

[dih-mahr-key-tiv, dee-mahr-key-]

de·mar·ca·tive

[dih-mahr-key-tiv, dee-mahr-key-]
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 is always a great word to know.
So is ambiguous. Does it mean:
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
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