| Lemma | sound |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | economical (inglese) element of speech (inglese) organ of speech (inglese) speaker (inglese) speech (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The very simpliest element of speech [...] is the individual sound [...] [...] the sound is [...] the resultant of a series of independent [...] adjustements in the organs of speech. [...] the number of clearly distinguishable sounds that are habitually employed by the speakers of a language is far greater than they themselves recognize. There are, then, an indefinitely large number of articulated sounds available for the mechanics of speech; any given language makes use of an explicit, rigidly economical selection of these rich resources. |