monostratal

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adjective

composed of or organized as a single stratum.

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Meanings

adjectivemonostratal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomposed of or organized as a single stratum.

    First, it is a monostratal model that does not require transduction. Hence it enjoys the full restrictiveness of finite state automata over transducers.

    2009, William D. Lewis with Simin Karimi and Heidi Harley, Time and again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics in honor of D. Terrence Langendoen, →ISBN, page 220
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    […]a difference of 18 in favor of the monostratal version. To date this model has yet to see any extensive degree of application, but it seems that there[…]

    1972, David G. Lockwood, Introduction to Stratificational Linguistics, →ISBN, page 232

Origin

From mono- + stratal.

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APA

monostratal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monostratal

MLA

“monostratal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monostratal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monostratal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monostratal.

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