DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmafunctional relation
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1933a)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviiphonetic variant (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[...] the functional relation between the proper 't' sound of such a word as 'matter' and its 'd' variant is quite other than the relation of the 't' of such a word as 'town' and the 'd' of 'down'. In every known language it is possible to distinguish merely phonetic variations [...] from symbolically functional ones of a phonemic order.
- Sapir (1933a), Pag. 9