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demarcative
[ dih-mahr-key-tiv, dee-mahr-key- ]
adjective
, Linguistics.
- (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of demarcative1
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Example Sentences
He treats the special case, cases as special as any of James', but segregated on different demarcative lines.
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