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ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SYLLABLE1

ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SYLLABLE1 ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SYLLABLE1 Jlfti KRÄMSKY The problem of the syllable has, so far, lost nothing of its topical interest. Again and again there appear papers trying to solve this problem from different points of view.2 The aim of our contribution is to render more precise the role and position of the syllable from the point of view of functional linguistics. Although many discussions dealt with this problem, no clean-cut conclusions have been arrived at. It is a strange thing that the existence of the syllable in languages is generally evident but linguists are at a loss as to its role in the language -- the determination of the syllable boundary is especially troublesome. Thus, e.g., Svein Bergsveinsson writes:3 "Die Silben als solche sind in allen Zeiten in allen bekannten Sprachen als eine akustische Tatsache festgestellt worden, während die genaue Feststellung der Silbengrenze von Sprachen nach individuellem Sprachgefühl und sprachlichen Vorstellungen ... schwankt". This paper is a slightly modified English version of the paper "Pokus o funköni pojeti slabiky", Slovo a slovesnost 30 : 2 (1969), 112-19. 2 Let us quote some papers from the last twenty years, especially those having some relation to our http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SYLLABLE1

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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10.1515/ling.1971.9.70.45
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ON THE FUNCTIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SYLLABLE1 Jlfti KRÄMSKY The problem of the syllable has, so far, lost nothing of its topical interest. Again and again there appear papers trying to solve this problem from different points of view.2 The aim of our contribution is to render more precise the role and position of the syllable from the point of view of functional linguistics. Although many discussions dealt with this problem, no clean-cut conclusions have been arrived at. It is a strange thing that the existence of the syllable in languages is generally evident but linguists are at a loss as to its role in the language -- the determination of the syllable boundary is especially troublesome. Thus, e.g., Svein Bergsveinsson writes:3 "Die Silben als solche sind in allen Zeiten in allen bekannten Sprachen als eine akustische Tatsache festgestellt worden, während die genaue Feststellung der Silbengrenze von Sprachen nach individuellem Sprachgefühl und sprachlichen Vorstellungen ... schwankt". This paper is a slightly modified English version of the paper "Pokus o funköni pojeti slabiky", Slovo a slovesnost 30 : 2 (1969), 112-19. 2 Let us quote some papers from the last twenty years, especially those having some relation to our

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1971

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