undergeneralise

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Verb

undergeneralise (third-person singular simple present undergeneralises, present participle undergeneralising, simple past and past participle undergeneralised)

  1. Alternative form of undergeneralize
    • 1992, Megan Jane Crowhurst, Minimality and Foot Structure in Metrical Phonology and Prosodic Morphology:
      A reason for specifying templates in terms of prosodic units is that segmental theories of the template overgenerate and undergeneralise.