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What does holophrastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) 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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Which developmental change takes place in the transition from holophrastic one-word utterances to multi-word utterances?
Arguments have been offered for holophrastic indeterminacy based on the idea of underdetermination of theory by evidence.
It is likely that at some point in time humans spoke a protolanguage in which most words had neither holophrastic nor atomic meanings.
The second kind of indeterminacy, which Quine sometimes refers to as holophrastic indeterminacy, is another matter.
All children were at the holophrastic stage of language development at the beginning of the study.
As the verbs form the base of these holophrastic words, they play a most important part in the grammatical structure of the language.

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