holophrastic


SYLLABICATION:
hol·o·phras·tic
PRONUNCIATION:
hl-frstk, hl-
ADJECTIVE:
1. Polysynthetic. 2. Of or relating to the stage of child language development
characterized by the use of single-word utterances.
ETYMOLOGY:
holo– + Greek phrastikos, expressive (from -phrastos, speakable, thought of,
from phrazein, to show; see gwhren- in Appendix I).