unicodal

unicodal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to or using a single code or language.
   • 1968, Richard Charles Oldfield, John C. Marshall, J. C. Marshall, John Crook Marshall, editors, Language: Selected Readings, Penguin Books, page 173:

     As there are three lists to a set, the number of words recalled is some fraction of 150 for the unilingual, unicodal, and mixed sets.

   • 1969, Harold J. Vetter, Language Behavior and Communication: An Introduction, Itasca, Ill.: F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc., page 95:

     Recall for the unicodal and unilingual lists was similar, but recall for the mixed code list (red or black) was only half that of the mixed language list.

   • 1978, Language in Society in West Africa, page 115:

     Unicodal / monolingual background

   • 1999, Susanne van Mulken, “User Characteristics in Current Presentation Systems”, in User Modeling for Multimedia Interfaces: Studies in Text and Graphics Understanding, Deutsche Universitäts-Verlag, →ISBN, section 5 (Generation of Referring Expressions), page 47:

     Edward (Claassen, 1992) allows for three types of referring expressions concerning the objects of a file system: pointing gestures, unicodal referring expressions (e.g., selecting an adequate pronoun), and multicodal referring expressions.

   • 2022, Annika Pasanen, Johanna Laakso, Anneli Sarhimaa, “The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73:

     Note, however, that active language use need not be unicodal. Bilingual children often and naturally switch between their codes or mix them.

• multicodal

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