| Lemma | quantitative alternation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1925) |
| Titolo | Sound Patterns in Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | phonetic pattern (inglese) sound (inglese) variation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] it is not because the objective difference is too slight to be readily perceptible that such variation as the quantitative alternations in 'bad' and 'bat' 'bead' and 'beat' [...] stand outside of te proper phonetic pattern of the language (e.g., are not psychologically parallel to such [...] quantitative alternations as German 'Schlaf' and 'schlaff' [...] |