Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of learnedness.
Learnèdness may affect all the morphemes in a word, or only the base, or only an affix.
1972, Edgar N. Mayer, “Morphophone, Diamorphophone and Protomorphophone”, in M. Estellie Smith, editor, Studies in Linguistics: In Honor of George L. Trager, page 2513 more examples
Malkiel, however, “granted in principle the existence of a significant learned transmission of these clusters” (1963-64: 157), so even when the attribution of learnèdness is as statistically dubious as it is with fl- Malkiel felt unable to dispute it.
1982, Roger Wright, Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France, page 12The first observation to be made about these forms concerns their learnèdness, or at least their learnèdness with these particular stress patterns.
2006, Iggy Roca, “The Spanish stress window”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Sonia Colina, editors, Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 253Though occasionally, he inserted a bit of French or English when the context was appropriate, his prose was not inflated with the Latin or Greek tags and snippets that were often superfluous but gave to many 18ᵗʰ-century writers the aura of “learnèdness.”
2014, “Introduction”, in England, University Press of America, →ISBN, page xiii
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