All we want to do in the first few procedures is to show that the totality of all speech occurrences which make up a language can be represented by segments, which can then be adjusted so that the length of each segment is the length of a phoneme. - Harris (1951), a pag.27 […] the totality of speech occurences in a given language is merely an integral number of utterances (including some interrupted utterances). - Harris (1951), a pag.28
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