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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English;
- Example: "`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

topicalization
    n 1: (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a
         sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence;
         placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is
         typical for English; "`Those girls, they giggle when they
         see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them'
         are examples of topicalization"