D. Jones and English phonological school

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Moscow Phonological School

The linguists of the Moscow Phonological School represent the morphological approach to the problem of establishing the phonemic status of a sound in neutral position.

According to this approach, to establish the status of a sound in a phonologically neutral position, one should find an allomorph of the same morpheme in which the phoneme under question occurs in the strong position (i.e. in which it retains all its DFs).

The Moscow linguists are of the opinion that interchange of sounds shows close connection between Phonetics (the science of the sound system) and Morphology (which studies grammatical meanings).

Alternations take place in one and the same morpheme and reveal its phonemic structure. The phonemic content of the morpheme is constant according to the Moscow Phonological School.

The definition of the phoneme proposed by the Moscow Phonological School: "a functional phonetic unit represented by a row of positionally changing sounds".

The relations between different sounds representing one and the same phoneme are called interallophonicby the linguists of the Moscow School.

Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense.

Jones employed a dual-parameter system of description based on the supposed height of the tongue arch together with the shape of the lips. This he reduced to a simple quadrilateral diagram which could be used to help visualize how vowels are articulated.

The International Phonetic Association still uses a version of Jones's model.

The physical view on the phoneme was introduced by D. Jones (1881-1967). In his book "An Outline of English Phonetics" the prominent British linguist defines the pho-neme as follows: "A phoneme may be described as a family of sounds consisting of an important sound of the language (generally the most frequently used member of that family) together with other related sounds which 'take its place' in particular sound sequences or under particular conditions of length, or stress or intonation".