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ON THE ACOUSTIC IDENTITY OF THE WORD

ON THE ACOUSTIC IDENTITY OF THE WORD ON THE ACOUSTIC IDENTITY OF THE WORD 1 HRI KRÄMSKY The problem of the acoustic identity of the word is not a problem much discussed in linguistic literature.1 This may be due to the complexity of the problem and to the difficulty of tackling it in a simpler way. For we usually have to simplify complicated situations in order to be able to analyse them. In fact, we often cannot do without such simplifications; they help us to determine structural relations between various language phenomena which we are unable to extricate by any other means. However, in order not to distort reality we must not lose sight of the fact that we have introduced into our study of the language a simplification of the linguistic concepts. The danger of forgetting that we use simplified concepts is more or less latent in nearly all linguistic concepts, even in such as are most useful for linguistic research, e.g., in the concept of the phoneme, as will be shown later. Another reason why the problem of the acoustic identity of the word has not so far received the due attention of linguists is to be found in the historical development of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0024-3949
eISSN
1613-396X
DOI
10.1515/ling.1965.3.16.42
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Abstract

ON THE ACOUSTIC IDENTITY OF THE WORD 1 HRI KRÄMSKY The problem of the acoustic identity of the word is not a problem much discussed in linguistic literature.1 This may be due to the complexity of the problem and to the difficulty of tackling it in a simpler way. For we usually have to simplify complicated situations in order to be able to analyse them. In fact, we often cannot do without such simplifications; they help us to determine structural relations between various language phenomena which we are unable to extricate by any other means. However, in order not to distort reality we must not lose sight of the fact that we have introduced into our study of the language a simplification of the linguistic concepts. The danger of forgetting that we use simplified concepts is more or less latent in nearly all linguistic concepts, even in such as are most useful for linguistic research, e.g., in the concept of the phoneme, as will be shown later. Another reason why the problem of the acoustic identity of the word has not so far received the due attention of linguists is to be found in the historical development of

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciencesde Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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