superjump

superjump

English

Noun

superjump (plural superjumps)

1. (mathematics) The jump operator for type two functionals.
2. (linguistics) A hypothetical phonological change in which a phoneme shifts to another realization, skipping over an intermediate phonetic value that is left unchanged.
   • 1999, David L. Cooper, Linguistic Attractors: The Cognitive Dynamics of Language, →ISBN, page 101:

     The paradox with these words arises because, with the exception of this class, all the descendants of aer and er words became /ihr/ and ar class words became /ehr/. The notion of a superjump is not very useful here.

3. An extremely large or powerful jump.
   • 2010, Denis Montgomery, The Reflected Face of Africa, →ISBN, page 199:

     Civilised man whether in London, Johannesburg or Nairobi is wrestling with our cultural superjump causing many unsolved urban social problems, but the rural peasant peoples of Africa I was travelling among had not yet acquired those problems.