holophrastic

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holophrastic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, of a sentence) Consisting of a single word, such as "Go." or "Whatever."
  2. (linguistics) Pertaining to the stage of development where a child produces simple one-word utterances.

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Last modified on 28 August 2012, at 03:42