[...] minimum unit of distinctive sound- feature, a phoneme. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.79 Each linguistic form is a fixed combination of signaling-units, the 'phonemes'. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.158 The important thing about language is its service in connecting the speaker's stimulus with the hearer's response. This connection depends as we have seen, upon a relatively few featurs of the acoustic form, upon the features which we call phonemes. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.128 Once we have defined the phonemes as the smallest units which make a difference in meaniing [...] - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.136 [... ] a phoneme is in the lexicon - namely, the smallest unit of form. - Bloomfield (1935), a pag.166
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