| Lemma | morphemic contour |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | contour (inglese) intonation (inglese) loud stress (inglese) meaning (inglese) morpheme (inglese) morphemic (inglese) social situation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Morphemic contours, such as the rising intonation marked /?/, the extra loud stress marked /”/, can be assigned meanings (‘question’ for /?/ and ‘contrastive emphasis’ for /”/) which indicate the social-situation correlation even though they differ somewhat in type from the more simply ‘referential’ meanings of 'cat', 'hate', 'please'. The usual meaning of some morphemes, e.g. 'please', approches the type of meaning of these contours. |