| Lemma | contour element |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
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| Citazioni | Both the contour elements and the segment-remnant elements are now needed in identifying an utterance, for each represents features of the utterance not indicated by the other. […] the unit-segment elements and the contour elements have been established in quite different ways. The unit-length elements resulted from operations of substitution […], whereas the contour elements express limitations in the variety of succession of features of segments. |