| Lemma | inner structure |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1925) |
| Titolo | Sound Patterns in Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | phonetic pattern (inglese) quantitative alternation (inglese) variation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] it is not because the objective difference is too slight to be readily perceptible that such variations as the quantitative alternations in 'bad' and 'bat', 'bead' and 'beat', 'fade' and 'fate' stand outside of the proper phonetic pattern of the language [...] but that the objective difference is felt to be slight precisely because it corresponds to nothing significant in the inner structure of the phonetic pattern. |