Markedness, a term that originated in linguistics, is the state of standing out as unusual or difficult in comparison to a more common or regular form. In a marked/unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant default or minimum effort form is known as the `unmarked` term and the other, secondary one is .....
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(from the article `linguistics`) The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax. When two phonemes are ...
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