0 a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: --
decimal coinage
1 (the inventing of) a new word or phrase in a language: --
The expression "boy band" is a 1990s coinage.
3 a set of coins of different values used in a country's money system: --
How many of these 20th-century coinages can you identify and define?
The most important generalisation about these coinages is that they cannot be improved upon.
Overall, simplicity should show up early in children's coinages provided the language offers simple options for constructing new words.
There, children should produce few early coinages since it takes time for them to analyze the options that are available.
The forms that appear more frequently in coinages are thereby considered the most productive of the options available.
Such uses were rare compared with intransitive coinages.
In fact, these coinages accounted for two-fifths of the novel nouns produced by four- and five-year-olds.
Such coinages form the topic of this and the next chapter.
