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REVIEWS Linguistics 176, pp. 73-104. Mouton Pubüshers, 1976. Ernst Pulgram, Syllable, Word, Nexus, Cursus. The Hague-Paris. 1970. This is a study of syllables and on that level it is one of the most serious attempts to introduce syllables into the general framework of linguistic theory. The recent immense interest in syllables is not accidental. Ontologically, syllables are a puzzling phenomenon. They are, as Pulgram writes, one of the central concepts of a diachronic and synchronic lingual analysis and, alongside others, the units of which words, phrases and pronouncement utterance, or- oral utterance are built.1 At the same time, the syllable has no place in the accepted system of language levels, nor in the system giving rise to grammar. In his Introduction Pulgram writes that usually linguists do not examine the syllable on a theoretical level, or do not regard it as a linguistic concept, or are unable to give linguistically faultless methods of defining and elucidating it.2 Thus, the aim of the book under review is to introduce the syllable into the theoretical channel of general linguistics. As we shall try to show below, this book has a dual purpose: 1) to evolve a theory of syllables and 2) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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0024-3949
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Linguistics 176, pp. 73-104. Mouton Pubüshers, 1976. Ernst Pulgram, Syllable, Word, Nexus, Cursus. The Hague-Paris. 1970. This is a study of syllables and on that level it is one of the most serious attempts to introduce syllables into the general framework of linguistic theory. The recent immense interest in syllables is not accidental. Ontologically, syllables are a puzzling phenomenon. They are, as Pulgram writes, one of the central concepts of a diachronic and synchronic lingual analysis and, alongside others, the units of which words, phrases and pronouncement utterance, or- oral utterance are built.1 At the same time, the syllable has no place in the accepted system of language levels, nor in the system giving rise to grammar. In his Introduction Pulgram writes that usually linguists do not examine the syllable on a theoretical level, or do not regard it as a linguistic concept, or are unable to give linguistically faultless methods of defining and elucidating it.2 Thus, the aim of the book under review is to introduce the syllable into the theoretical channel of general linguistics. As we shall try to show below, this book has a dual purpose: 1) to evolve a theory of syllables and 2)

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Published: Jan 1, 1976

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