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systematic phoneme

American

noun

Linguistics.

a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.

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So if there really was minimal tropical cooling, then there would need to be an alternative explanation of why those SST proxy time series show such systematic patterns.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2011

“We really had to dig deep to tease out any systematic patterns behind these departures,” Becker-Blease said.

From US News • Oct. 8, 2010

Tired players searching through the rough, sweeping back and forth in long systematic patterns.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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