T-unit

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T-unit

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Coined by Kellogg Hunt in 1965. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Why "T"?”)

T-unit (plural T-units)

1. (linguistics) The shortest grammatically allowable sentence into which a piece of writing can be split.

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