| Lemma | sound pattern(ing) |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | individual variation (inglese) phonetic drift (inglese) relation (inglese) sound (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] the old sound pattern 'o', 'e', after an interim of 'o', 'รถ', 'e', reappeared as 'o', 'e', except that now the 'e' had greater 'weight' than before. How can we understand the nature of the drift [...] when we have never thought of studying sound patterning as such and the 'weights' and psychic relations of the single elements (the individual sounds) in these patterns? We may suppose that individual variations arising at linguistic borderlands [...] have gradually been incorporated into the phonetic drift of a language. So long as its main phonetic concern is the preservation of its sound patterning, [...] there is [...] no reason why a language may not unconsciously assimilate foreign sounds [...] |