"non-binarity" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1975, General Linguistics",
          "text": "Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.",
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          "ref": "1990, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Plume",
          "text": "Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.",
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          "ref": "1998, Claus Fröhlich, M. Huber, S.K. Solanki, Rudolf von Steiger, Solar Composition and its Evolution — from Core to Corona: Proceedings of an Issi Workshop 26-30 January 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, page 419",
          "text": "As regards its particular mass and age, and probably its non-binarity, \"anthropic\" explanations may seem in place. The possible tendency for the Sun, as compared with similar stars, to be somewhat rich in iron relative to other elements […]",
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          "text": "On the non-binarity of the null subject parameter",
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          "ref": "2019, I. M. Roca, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, page 13",
          "text": "Nor can we maintain the converse position that a defining property of parameters is non-binarity, as there appear to be some, most notably the directionality parameters, which by their very nature are binary.",
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