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What does markedness mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
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The form of the hierarchies makes predictions concerning acquisition, markedness and language change.
There is also a more abstract sense of markedness, which is independent of the presence or absence of an overt feature or affix.
Emergent ranking of faithfulness explains markedness and licensing by cue.
There is a want of depth, power and markedness in our conversion.
The markedness of each object on the respective constructs is assessed herewith.
McComas looked out at him with no particular expression and indeed with no markedness of attention.

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