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Markedness

In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. The typical form or meaning of a term is said to be unmarked versus the nontypical marked form or meaning.

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Marked and unmarked word pairs

Background in Prague School

Jakobsonian tradition

Cultural markedness and informedness

Local markedness and markedness reversals

Universals and frequency

In generative grammar

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Markedness

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples143
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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related to Further reading · 65
Markedness → Albany, An Introduction, An Overview, Andersen, Andrews, Archangeli, Asymmetry, Battistella, Berlin, Blackwell, Chandler, Chomsky, Continental Philosophy, Daniel, Diachrony, Diana, Duke University Press, Durham, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Dictionary
related to Jakobsonian tradition · 18
Markedness → Andrews, Cornelius, Edna Andrews, Edwin Battistella, Functional, Henning Andersen, Linguistic, Michael Shapiro, Other, Peirce, Peirce's, Rodney Sangster, Schooneveld, Shapiro, Talmy Givón, The, Willi Mayerthaler, Yishai Tobin
related to In generative grammar · 15
Markedness → Chomsky, Control, English, Filters, For Chomsky, Halle, Howard Lasnik, However, In, In The Sound Pattern, Morris Halle's The Sound, Noam Chomsky, Pattern, Segment, The
related to background · 14
Markedness → Binarism, Both, Edwin Battistella, For Jakobson, Forty, In, Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Prague School, Roman Jakobson, Russian Verb, Structure, Trubetzkoy, While
related to Cultural markedness and informedness · 9
Markedness → As, Battistella, Conceptual, Jakobson, Linda Waugh, Matthews, Other, Rodney Needham's, Since
related to Local markedness and markedness reversals · 8
Markedness → But, In West Frisian, Often, Reversal, Thus, Usually, West Frisian, What
related to Universals and frequency · 6
Markedness → Greenberg, However, Jakobson, Joseph Greenberg's, Language Universals, Trubetzkoy
related to Diagnostics · 4
Markedness → Croft, From, Other, What
is a · 2
Markedness → information content and information value of an element, state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common

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unmarked marked language one grammar phonological features may form linguistic also linguistics universals jakobson oppositions term theory chomsky social frequency

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Markednessis astate of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common0.90text
Markednessis ainformation content and information value of an element0.90text
nasal versus non-nasal as defined as the presence versus the absence of nasalityinstance ofTrubetzkoy and Jakobson analyzed phonological oppositions0.80text
Talmy Givón have suggested that markedness is related to cognitive complexityinstance ofinterpretant triad.Functional linguists0.80text
Markednessrelated to backgroundWhile0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundPrague School0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundRoman Jakobson0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundNikolai Trubetzkoy0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundBoth0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundEdwin Battistella0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundBinarism0.60section
Markednessrelated to backgroundTrubetzkoy0.60section

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