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Emic and etic units

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…

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GreekKenneth PikeAncient GreekChemistry
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PhonesFree variationGlyphLexemeGrammeme
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SocialBehavioralThis general sense
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LinguisticsAbstract objectPhonemeGraphemeMorpheme
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Emic and etic units

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples1
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
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emic unit units linguistics phoneme object etic different surface used terms called underlying representations abstract term grapheme morpheme prefix allophone

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