Related Term(s):

• consecutive
• sequential
• successive
• syntagmatic
• unidimensional

Source(s):

TRASK 1993161-162 (linear precedence, linear time)
CRYSTAL 2003270-271 (linear grammar, linear precedence rule, linear prediction)
PEI & GAYNOR 1954123 (linear writing)
DINEEN 19676-7
HARTMANN & STORK 1972130 (also "linear phoneme", "linear script")
Brown & Yule 1983125 (linearisation)
LYONS 1971209
NASH 1968126 (linear phoneme, linear sequence)
Clark & Clark 1977162 (linear array)
MATTHEWS 1997208-209 (linearization, linear precedence rule)
GRIMES 1975256ff. (linear organization)

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