Definitions for t-unit
t-unit

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1. T-unitnoun

   shortest grammatically allowable sentence into which a piece of writing can be split

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1. T-unit

   In linguistics, the term T-unit was coined by Kellogg Hunt in 1965. It is defined as the "shortest grammatically allowable sentences into which (writing can be split) or minimally terminable unit." Often, but not always, a T-unit is a sentence. More technically, a T-unit is a dominant clause and its dependent clauses: as Hunt said, it is "one main clause with all subordinate clauses attached to it" (Hunt 1965:20). T-units are often used in the analysis of written and spoken discourse, such as in studies on errors in second language writing. The number of error-free T-units may be counted, as in Robb et al. (1986), or changes in accuracy per T-unit overdrafts of compositions may be measured (Sachs and Polio, 2007). Young (1995) gives some examples of what a T-unit is and is not: "The following elements were counted as one T-unit: a single clause, a matrix plus subordinate clause, two or more phrases in apposition, and fragments of clauses produced by ellipsis. Co-ordinate clauses were counted as two t-units. Elements not counted as t-units include backchannel cues such as mhm and yeah, and discourse boundary markers such as okay, thanks or good. False starts were integrated into the following t-unit." (Young 1995:38)

How to pronounce t-unit?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say t-unit in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of t-unit in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of t-unit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of t-unit in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   What I'm asking Congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the legal authority to detain and promptly remove families together as a unit. We have to be able to do this. This is the only solution to the border crisis.

2. Davidson Lomba:

   We have been complaining about safety problems since production started, but with other production unit accidents, the ANP finally decided to inspect the production units, we finally decided to stop doing any more construction work on the production unit.

3. Greg Delks:

   We want to grow to 2,000 restaurants by the end of the decade, some say that’s very aggressive growth, but I submit to you, if you have 50 area representatives, and they each open three restaurants in their markets per year, they have n’t even broken a sweat. That type of growth really lends itself to the multi-unit environment.

4. Mountain View Police Department:

   Over 80 latent fingerprints that were also collected at the time of Laurie’s death were re-examined by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Identification Unit, which resulted in even more fingerprints matching Woodward.

5. Ken Farley:

   Not every sample Perseverance is collecting will be done in the quest for ancient life, and we don't expect this first sample to provide definitive proof one way or the other, while the rocks located in this geologic unit are not great time capsules for organics, we believe they have been around since the formation of Jezero Crater and incredibly valuable to fill gaps in our geologic understanding of this region -- things we'll desperately need to know if we find life once existed on Mars.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/T-Unit
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Unit