Re: CHAT: Parallelism
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 1999, 3:07 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> I think all it shows is that the concept of a phoneme is just an idealization,
> but a necessary and useful one
That's something like what I think. I do believe that something like
the phoneme is stored in the brain, and that the brain, *when producing
speech* uses those phonemes, but, of course, in production they are
smeared, and *when hearing speach*, the brain deduces the phonemes from
that "smeared" sound. I don't think that words are stored in the brain
as "holistic" unit, but rather as a serious of phonemes.
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