Modelling the Phoneme : New Trends in East European Phonemic Theory

Russian phonemic theory goes back to pre-revolutionary days. The first phonologist on the Russian scene was the famous Polish linguist J. Baudouin de Courtenay, who can be viewed as the predecessor of both the Moscow and Leningrad schools of phonology. 1 As early as 1881 he wrote (1963: 122): The concept 'phoneme' is decomposed into two essentially different notions: 1) the mere generalization of anthropophonic [i.e., phonetic] properties, 2) the mobile [i.e., variable] component of a morpheme and the mark of a certain morphological category. This coincides with two categories of correlates. In the course of the further development of these ideas it will be necessary to make a strict distinction between the two aspects of the concept of a phoneme and at the same time to set up separate terms for them. PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODELS IN PHONEMICS 1. RUSSIAN PHONEMIC THEORY BEFORE 1962 2. SAUMJAN'S TWO-LEVEL MODEL 3. SET-THEORETICAL MODELS 4. IDENTIFICATION MODELS 5. BATÓG'S LOGICAL MODEL PART TWO. FUNDAMENTALS OF PHONEMIC MODELLING 6. THE USE OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS 7. MODELS AND MODELLING 8. THE PHONEME 9. OPTIONAL FEATURES AND HEAVY PHONEMES 10. A NOTE ON CONFIGURATIONAL FEATURES LIST OF REFERENCES

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