On p. 29 he [Trubetzkoy] distinguishes three phonological functions: ‘distinctive or meaning-distinguishing’ (phonemes proper), ‘culminative or crest-making’ (stress, etc.); ‘boundary-marking’ (juncture). - Harris (1941), a pag.346 The two most important contributions of Trubetzkoy’s last volume are his detailed […] discussion of neutralization and junctures. Both of these are fairly new terms in linguistics, representing procedures of analysis which have only recently become explicit. - Harris (1941), a pag.348
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