What is a productive element?

A productive element is a letter or syllable that can be used in making the greatest number of useful content words in order to construct natural, idiomatic sentences. Functors, and tone marks (in languages having phonemic tone) also should be considered for productivity.

• Concept module: productive element
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): P
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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