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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markedness | is a | state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common | 0.90 | text |
| Markedness | is a | information content and information value of an element | 0.90 | text |
| nasal versus non-nasal as defined as the presence versus the absence of nasality | instance of | Trubetzkoy and Jakobson analyzed phonological oppositions | 0.80 | text |
| Talmy Givón have suggested that markedness is related to cognitive complexity | instance of | interpretant triad.Functional linguists | 0.80 | text |
| Markedness | related to background | While | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Prague School | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Roman Jakobson | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Nikolai Trubetzkoy | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Both | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Edwin Battistella | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Binarism | 0.60 | section |
| Markedness | related to background | Trubetzkoy | 0.60 | section |
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