Definitions
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- noun linguistics A unit of
text that respects thephonotactic restrictions of alanguage , but is not part of thelexicon
Etymologies
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From pseudo- + word
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Examples
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Listening to the conversation, I thought I'd comment on previously noted uses of the pseudoword "incent" or other grammatical errors, but I find myself fuming about the implication that as we baby-boomers retire, you will somehow be better able to remake teaching once we get out of your way … let's hope there's at least one baby-boomer left in each building to correct their grammar.
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Word and pseudoword naming responses primed by words with non-dominant stress - which require whole-word knowledge to be read correctly - were compared to those primed by nonwords.
Elites TV 2009
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