Pseudoword
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudoword is a noun meaning (linguistics) A unit of speech or text that respects the phonotactic restrictions of a language, but is not part of the lexicon; a non-word whose nonexistence is merely an accidental gap.
Meaning
(linguistics) A unit of speech or text that respects the phonotactic restrictions of a language, but is not part of the lexicon; a non-word whose nonexistence is merely an accidental gap.
Example Sentences
In Experiment 1, pseudowords made up of Italian derivational suffixes of various frequencies and meaningless pseudoroots were contrasted to pseudowords in which the same pseudoroots were combined with control orthographically legal final sequences.
Word Forms
- pseudowords
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pronounceable, pseudo-participial, pseudoroot, pseudoprefix, pseudohomophone, pseudolanguage.
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