| Lemma | substitutable |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | AG |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | class (inglese) distribution (inglese) environment (inglese) equation (inglese) equivalent (inglese) free variant (inglese) language (inglese) native (inglese) one-one correspondence (inglese) phoneme (inglese) position (inglese) segment (inglese) sound (inglese) substitution (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The one-one correspondence means only that if a particular sound 'x' in a given position is associated with a phoneme 'Y' we will associate with it, in the stated position, some sound 'x’', 'x’’', wich is substitutable for the original 'x' (i.e. has the same distribution as 'x'). It is empirically discoverable that in all languages which have been described we can find some part of one utterance which will be similar to a part of some other utterance. ‘Similar’ here means not physically identical but substitutable without obtaining a change in response from native speakers who hear the utterance before and after the substitution: e.g the last part of 'He’s in.' is substitutable for the last part of 'That’s my pin'. We equate any two sequences of classes if one of them is substitutable for the other in all utterances in which either occurs.If the sequence of 'A + ly' is always substitutable for 'D', we write the equation 'A ly = D'. This equation means that the range of utterance environments of 'A ly' is identical with that of 'D', or that wherever we find a member of 'D' we may substitute for it not only some other member of 'D' but also some member of 'A' followed by 'ly'. |