DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaquantitative alternation
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1925)
TitoloSound Patterns in Language
Sinonimi 
Rinviiphonetic pattern (inglese)
sound (inglese)
variation (inglese) 
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[...] 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' [...]
- Sapir (1925), Pag. 37