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Prague Linguistic Circle: The Prague Linguistic Circle (also known as the Prague School) was a group of linguists, philologists, and literary theorists who met regularly in Prague from 1926 to the early 1950s. The circle was founded by the Czech linguist Vilém Mathesius, and its members included Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, and Jan Mukařovský. See also R. Jakobson, Linguistics, Grammar, Semantics, Syntax._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Lyons on Prague Linguistic Circle - Dictionary of Arguments
I 119 Prague Linguistic Circle/Phonology/Linguistics/Lyons: also distinguishes next to phonemes Def Archiphonems: are limited to the positions in which neutralization takes place. >Phonemes/Lyons, >Terminology/Lyons. Notation: Capital letters. Example /T/ is an archiphoneme, /d/ and /t/ are not. For example, death (=German: Tod) would be transcribed to /toD/. Question: Are the two sounds at the beginning and end, which are phonetically (physically) identical, also phonologically identical? >Phonology, >Phonetics. a) The linguist who defends the principle "once phoneme always phoneme" will say yes. b) Prague Linguistic CircleVs: if you make a distinction between phoneme and archiphoneme, you will say that it is not phonologically (related to meaning) the same. Cf. >Meanings._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ly II John Lyons Semantics Cambridge, MA 1977 Lyons I John Lyons Introduction to Theoretical Lingustics, Cambridge/MA 1968 German Edition: Einführung in die moderne Linguistik München 1995 |