| Lemma | distributional contrast |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1941) |
| Titolo | Review of "Grundzüge der Phonologie". By N. S. Trubetzkoy, Prague, 1939 |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | phoneme (inglese) phonetic contrast (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] it is pointless to mix phonetic and distributional contrasts. If phonemes which are phonetically similar are also similar in their distribution, that is a result which must be independently proved. For the crux of the matter is that phonetic and distributional contrasts are methodologically different, and that only distributional contrasts are relevant while phonetic contrasts are irrelevant. |