language unit
linguistic unit

Performance errors supply evidence for the psychological existence of discrete linguistic units.

"I think it's a linguistic unit in the Department of Defense," she said.

It often indicates that two superficially different elements are in fact the same linguistic unit at a deeper level.

However, we are not, for the moment, concerned with the structure of linguistic units comparable to the simple sentence (see Chapter 5).

Words, even though represent separate linguistic units, are linked together according to the characteristics they possess.

The valley is not only a geographical unit, but also a cultural and linguistic unit.

One linguistic unit can be cued by several acoustic properties.

So with a word (or other linguistic unit) the meaning (apprehended content) and the sound come together to make a sign.

The focus of Saussure's investigation is the linguistic unit or sign.

So we can assume that analysis of prior linguistic units has two effects on subsequent processing.