| Lemma | first articulation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Martinet (1962) |
| Titolo | A Functional View of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | double articulation (inglese) moneme (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | People do not, as a rule, invent new monems. All this is in keeping with the analytic process I have called the first articulation, according to which experience is subjected to an analysis manifested in linear form. The articulation of experience into successive units is only one of the two features which we want to include in our definition of language. We have to reckon in language with a second articulation, that of the phonic aspect of every moneme into a succession of distinctive units, the phonemes. The first articulation was economical in the sense that with a few thousands of fairly unspecific monemes, it was possible to shape an infinity of different communications. |