Is There a Universal Phonetic Alphabet

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2913389
AutoresGeoffrey Sampson (autor de correspondencia)
Año1974
Volumen50
Número2
Páginas236
Fecha de publicación1974-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/412436
OpenAlexW2037784950
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas35

Many ‘physical phonetic ‘ variables are continuous, so physically there is an infinitely large range of possible sounds. The generative phonologists, unlike Bloomfield, believe in a universal level of ’systematic phonetics’, where only a fixed finite number of distinct values are possible for each phonetic variable, and hence there is only a finite set of possible segments. To justify this hypothesis it would be necessary (a) to show that facts follow from it which are arbitrary on Bloomfield's theory, and (b) to explain away any counter-evidence. It is argued here that hardly any true predictions have been shown to follow from the hypothesis, and evidence is offered against it

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