English
Pronunciation
lÄst'Ä�m, IPAchar|/Ë�lɪstiË�m/, /<tt>"lIsti:m</tt>/
Noun
en-noun
#linguistics: An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
#: Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".
Quotations
2000: A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, that is, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list; one can argue that this book ought to have been called Listemes and Rules. — Steven Pinker, Words and Rules ISBN 0-465-07269-0, page 24.
See also
chereme
chroneme
expression
grapheme
idiom
irregular
lexeme
phoneme
set phrase
term
toneme
word
Category:Semantics
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