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Originally proposed by
Ferdinand de Saussure
, "linguistic unit" is a phrase used by
linguist
s to describe any piece of
linguistic data
(that is, something uttered by a speaker) that it makes sense to talk about as a single bit. The beauty of the phrase is that it is
non-specific
and so can be used in any subdiscipline from
phonetics
to
semantics
to
sociolinguistics
. Furthermore, it can help avoid using such vague language as "
word
", for which there is no agreed-upon definition. The phrase is also very useful in defining concepts like
morpheme
: the smallest
linguistic unit
that expresses meaning; it seems that without a non-specific term like "linguistic unit" morpheme could not be defined.
For example, the following can be considered linguistic units:
The
sound
[p]
The
phoneme
[p]
The
morpheme
-er
The
word
boat
The
phrase
"enchilada sauce"
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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Word
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Phonetics
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phoneme
linguistic data
primary linguistic data
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