Emic and etic units
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emic-and-etic-units-225-440269
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Emic and etic units
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In linguistics and related fields, an emic unit is a type of abstract object. Kinds of emic units are generally denoted by terms with the suffix -eme, such as phoneme, grapheme, and morpheme. The term "emic unit" is defined by Nöth (1995) to mean "an invariant form obtained from the reduction of a class of variant forms to a limited number of abstract units". The variant forms are called etic units. This means that a given emic unit is considered to be a single underlying object that may have a
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Abstract object analyzed in linguistics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic_units
date created:
2012-02-19T18:27:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T12:43:53Z
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