The Articulations of Speech Sounds Represented by Means of Analphabetic Symbols

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N. G. Elwert, 1889 - 94 pagine
 

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Pagina 9 - What it claims is merely to provide the means of writing down phonetic "minutiae in a comparatively easy and unambiguous manner ; it will consequently be specially useful as a means of supplying a key for systems of transcription with our common letters adapted to particular sound systems, and of avoiding the defects of the usual phonetic terminology in discussions about the formation and history of speech-sounds. What it gives is not so much a set of readable symbols as half mathematical formulas...
Pagina 26 - However I afterwards noticed that the sense of pharyngal and palatal tension was always concentrated on that part of the mouth where the sound was formed, in front sounds on the hard palate. This was a reductio ad absurdum, showing that the feeling was really imaginary.
Pagina 12 - Greek alphabet, a meaning the lips, fi the tip of the tongue, and so on, proceeding inwards. On the lines are written numerals (Arabic and Roman) to indicate the size and shape of the configurative aperture ; and to these numerals are added, by way of exponents, Roman letters, denoting the place of greatest narrowness.
Pagina 12 - The various positions of the.se exponents indicate smaller divisions in the acting organs, for which it has not been found necessary to create separate lines.
Pagina 9 - ... and ( /) air expelled from lungs. The attempt of Jespersen may be called an analphabetic system of writing, symbolising, not sounds, but the elements of sounds. At present it is severely technical, but it seems to " provide a means of writing down and describing phonetic minutiae in a comparatively easy and unambiguous manner." It will do for the phonetician what symbolism does for the mineralogist. It is a kind of algebra for speech sounds. In advocating the establishment of a photographic museum,...
Pagina 8 - ... an incident being given as a whole ; this developed into an ideographic writing of each word by itself; this system was succeeded by syllabic methods, which had in their turn to give place to alphabetic writing, in which each letter stands for, or is meant to stand for, one sound Just as here the advance is due to a further analysis of language, smaller and smaller units of speech being progressively represented by single signs, in an exactly similar way, though not quite so unmistakably, the...
Pagina 20 - Sweet is of the same opinion; he says (/##., p. 211): ,,In passing from (i) to (e) and (ae) successively, not only is the tongue lowered, but the point of greatest narrowness is also shifted further back, the size of the resonance-chamber in the front of the mouth being thus increased in both directions...
Pagina 8 - In primitive picture-writing, each sign meant a whole sentence or even more — the image of a situation or of an incident being given as a whole ; this developed into an ideographic writing of each word by itself; this system was succeeded by syllabic methods, which had in their turn to give place to alphabetic writing, in which each letter stands for, or is meant to stand for, one sound...
Pagina 11 - ... see that the jaw itself does not play any part; the shape « of the mouth channel is here all-essential, and that depends pri« marily on the distance of the tongue from the palate and on the

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