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Dictionary of language and linguistics 396expiratory accentstress accentexplanatory adequacylevels of adequacyexplicit derivationderivationexplosive [Lat. explodere ‘to eject, to castout’]Plosive with oral, medial release, e.g. the initial [t h ] (as opposed to the final unreleasedin tat . ( also articulatory phonetics, aspiration)phoneticsReferencesexpression1 Unclassified linguistic unit of any length: words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, etc. Incontrast to utterance, which is part of parole, an expression belongs to langue (langue vs parole).2 In semiotics, the material, perceivable aspect of the (linguistic) sign in contrast to itssemantic content, e.g. sound waves, written characters, pictographs.