Definition of "subjacency" []

• The state of being subjacent. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As usual, the moment he starts discussing what would eventually be called subjacency I find my intuitions are systematically different from his, and I'm curious: how common is this?"
• "“Critical Period Effects on universal properties of language: the status of subjacency in the acquisition of a second language”, Cognition,"