| Lemma | inner / ideal sound system |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | dialect (inglese) language (inglese) pattern (inglese) relation (inglese) sound of speech (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Back of the purely objective system of sounds that is peculiar to a language and which can be arrived at only by a painstaking phonetic analysis, there is a more restricted 'inner' or 'ideal' system. The inner sound system [...] is a real and an immensely important principle in the life of a language. It may persist as a pattern, involving number, relation, and functioning of phonetic elements . Two historically related languages or dialects may not have a sound in common, but their ideal sound-systems may be identical patterns. Every language [...] is characterized as much by its ideal system of sounds and by the underlying phonetic pattern (system, one might term it, of symbolic atoms) [...] |