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title: "Information Units (Linguistics)"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhiu/
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Information Units are unique entities mentioned during an utterance; for a sentence like &ldquo;There is a boy. The boy is a brother. He is stealing a cookie. The sister is watching.&rdquo;, &ldquo;boy, cookie, sister&rdquo; are possible IUs.
