Leningrad phonological school

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 969.

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

The same relations are defined as interphonemic by the representatives of the Leningrad Phonological School. The linguists of this trend support the autonomous approach to the phoneme: the autonomy of the phoneme and its independence from the morpheme (different allomorphs of a morpheme may differ from each other not only in their allophonic, but also in their phonemic composition).

Many linguists share the approach to the phoneme status suggested by acad. L.V. Shcherbawho defines the phoneme in the following way: "… in actual speech we utter a much greater variety of sounds than we are aware of; in every language these sounds are united in a comparatively small number of sound types which are capable of distinguishing the meaning and the form of words; that is, they serve the purpose of social intercourse. It is these sound types that we have in mind when discussing speech sounds. Such sound types will be called phonemes. The various sounds that we actually utter and which are the individual representing of the universal (the phoneme), will be called phonemic variants"