Exploring the Measurement of Markedness and Its Relationship with Other Linguistic Variables.

Antonym pair members can be differentiated by each word's markedness-that distinction attributable to the presence or absence of features at morphological or semantic levels. Morphologically marked words incorporate their unmarked counterpart with additional morphs (e.g., "unlucky" vs...

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Main Authors: Joanne Ingram, Christopher J Hand, Greg Maciejewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4900653?pdf=render