| Lemma | phoneme |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1933b) |
| Titolo | The Psychological Reality of Phonemes |
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| Citazioni | The concept of the 'phoneme' (a functionally significant unit in the rigidly defined pattern or configuration of sounds peculiar to a language), as distinct from that of 'sound' [...] as such [...] is becoming more and more familiar to linguists. [...] we implicitly make a distinction, whether we know it or not, between the phoneme and the sound in that particular framework of experience which is known as language (actualized in speech). [...] what the naïve speaker hears is not phonetic elements but phonemes. In the physical world the naïvw speaker and hearer actualize and are sensitive to sounds, but what they feel to be pronouncing and hearing are 'phonemes'. |