Language Unit (Noun)
Meaning
One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The researchers studied the various language units used in the dialect to understand its grammatical structure.
- A phoneme is a language unit that distinguishes one word from another in a particular language.
- In linguistics, a morpheme is considered the smallest language unit that carries meaning.
- The sentence was broken down into its constituent language units to analyze the syntax and semantics.
- A syllable can be considered a language unit that contains a vowel sound and is used to form words.