| The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax. |
| McComas looked out at him with no particular expression and indeed with no markedness of attention. |
| There is also a more abstract sense of markedness, which is independent of the presence or absence of an overt feature or affix. |
| The markedness of each object on the respective constructs is assessed herewith. |
| The commonest form of markedness constraint is some version of the claim that, at least in internally motivated change, more marked structures will become less marked. |
| In recent years, researchers in second-language acquisition have begun to consider the application of linguistic markedness theory to aspects of second-language learning. |
