Sunday, May 2, 2010
Bloomfield : Leonard or Maurice
Hi whoever reads me,
Did you notice that there are two American linguists named Bloomfield?
One is Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949), the author of Language (1933)
and founder of...
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Bloomfield : Leonard or Maurice
Hi whoever reads me,
Did you notice that there are two American linguists named Bloomfield?
One is Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949), the author of Language (1933)
and founder of American Structuralism.
The other is in fact his uncle: Maurice Bloomfield
(February 23, 1855 – June 12, 1928).
He was an American philologist and Sanskrit
scholar.
Best
A.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Early thoughts of Bloomfield about the phoneme
Hi,
Here s something you may not know about Leonard Bloomfield s approach of the
phoneme:
V.
Phonemes
15.
Assumption 4.
Different morphemes may be alike or partly alike as to vocal features.
Thus book : table [b]; stay : west [st]; -er (agent) : -er (comparative).
The assumption implies that the meanings are different.
16.
Def.
A minimum same of vocal feature is a phoneme or distinctive sound.
As for instance, English [b, s, t], the English normal word-stress
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