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T-unit
In linguistics, the term T-unit was coined by Hunt in 1965.[1] It is defined as the "shortest grammatically allowable sentences into which (writing can be split) or minimally terminable unit", and thus is often but not always a sentence. More technically, a T-unit is a dominant clause and its dependent clauses, as Hunt said "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, for example in studies on errors in second language writing. The number of error free T-units may be counted, as in Robb et al. (1986),[2] or changes in accuracy per T-unit over drafts of compositions may be measured (Sachs and Polio, 2007).[3] Young (1995)[4] gives some examples of what a T-unit is and is not:
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