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adjective Linguistics.
(of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
Origin:
phonestheme such a sound or group of sounds (coined by J. R. Firth in 1930; apparently phon- + esth(etic) + -eme) + -ic
phonestheme such a sound or group of sounds (coined by J. R. Firth in 1930; apparently phon- + esth(etic) + -eme) + -ic
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Phonesthemic
is always a great word to know.
So is phrase structure tree. Does it mean:
| a structural representation of a sentence in the form of an inverted tree, with each node of the tree labeled according to the phrasal constituent it represents |
| an expression exhibiting constructional homonymity or having two or more structural descriptions |
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