| Lemma | speech-feature definition of a component |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | component (inglese) feature of speech (inglese) length (inglese) phoneme (inglese) zero (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The speech-feature definition of a component may vary over different parts of its length. E.g. if ¯ extends over all successive consonants, it is defined as representing voicelessness only over what we may call stops and aspirants. When it extends over a cluster which includes /r, l, m, n, w, y/, it is defined as indicating zero (i.e. no phonemic difference) over those phonemes: if we write /zdrey/ for 'stray' and /drey/ for 'dray', we have /r/ = /r/ whereas /d/ does not equal /d/. |