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- noun linguistics The phenomenon of words, forms or
phonemes that are considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than usual forms.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So when asking for help, there would be no difference in markedness here, for you?
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This solves markedness issues nicely by reversing which series is marked and which is unmarked with the least amount of effort.
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This is just a continuation of my jovial traipsing through modern reinterpretations of Indo-European phonology see Reinterpreting the Proto-Indo-European velar series where I explain that the traditional reconstruction of a palatal series violates the principle of markedness and that it's high time we modernize the theory for the 21st century.
The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop") 2008
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Your idea violates markedness principles, lacks a reason for the areal restriction of Grassman's Law, and is immediately counter to Occam's Razor i.e. the solution with the least number of assumptions is the best solution.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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In the traditional model, consonant clusters oddly prefer palatal *k in opposition to markedness.
The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop") 2008
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While analogical change within the numeral set is common and possible in general, it doesn't appear probable here when Starostin's typically "parenthetic" *ŋi̯u "3" has not been demonstrated with regular sound correspondences using a competently reconstructed phonology that doesn't violate phonemic markedness at every turn.
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To add further irony, Allan Bomhard had recently offered an excellent alternative to Illich-Svitych's ejective-rich theory to finally address markedness problems by turning ejective stops into plain stops.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Your idea violates markedness principles, lacks a reason for the areal restriction of Grassman's Law, and is immediately counter to Occam's Razor i.e. the solution with the least number of assumptions is the best solution.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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To add further irony, Allan Bomhard had recently offered an excellent alternative to Illich-Svitych's ejective-rich theory to finally address markedness problems by turning ejective stops into plain stops.
The early Illych-Svitych on Indo-European and early Semitic contacts 2008
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The traditional account, keep in mind, is not just in violation of markedness in PIE itself, but in violation in the aeons preceding its theoretical development.
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