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Meaning of extragrammatical | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Existing separately from a language's grammar.

not-comparable

Examples

“an extragrammatical influence on speech”
“Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical.”
“A commonly cited limitation on the study of peripheral, extragrammatical and/or ludic processes in morphophonology is the relative difficulty of automated retrieval of their outputs.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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