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An application in linguistics and phonetics of the general use of this term in scientific investigation, where a construct is taken as ‘given’ by a theory, the purpose of the theoretical exposition being to explicate it.

按照科学研究中这个术语的一般用法，语音学和语言学用来指某些理论构建被认为是一种理论所“给定”的，而理论阐释的目的是对其加以引申。