phonemes (was: 'noun' and 'adjective')
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 4, 2006, 22:15 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
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>>Also, the idea that there are phoneticians who dispute the very
>>existence of phonemes blows my mind. :)
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> Our very own And Rosta is one of them, unless he's changed opinion without
> telling me.
Well, they don't exist, do they? As I understand it, they are strictly
language-dependent abstractions. While the phoneme theory is quite
useful in describing the way sounds are related in an individual
language they by no means IMO tell the whole story.
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