| Lemma | length of a component |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1944) |
| Titolo | Simultaneous Components in Phonology |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | component (inglese) length (inglese) phoneme (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | When particular phonemes occur next each other (e.g. English /sp/ in /spin/), while others do not (e.g. /sb/), we will say that the phonemes which occur next to each other all have some one component in common. The length of a component will therefore always be an integral number of phoneme-lengths—1, 2, 3, etc.—but need not be just one. |