The london phonological school

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THE LONDON
PHONOLOGICAL SCHOOL

2.

PROF. D. JONES OF
LONDON UNIVERSITY
PHONEME
is a family of sound in a given
language, which are related in
character and are used in such a
way that no one member ever
occurs in the same phonetic
context as any other member

3.

It is widely believed that
Professor Jones was the
inspiration for George
Bernard Shaw's character
Professor Henry Higgins in
'Pygmalion’.

4.

THE AMERICAN PHONOLOGICAL
SCHOOL

5.

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD
PHONEME
is a minimum unit of
distinctive sound
abstract view of the
phoneme

6.

THE PRAGUE SCHOOL

7.

NIKOLAI SERGEYEVICH
TRUBETZKOY
PHONEMES
sets of distinctive features
For example
/b/ differs from /p/ in the same way
that /d/ differs from /t/ and /g/ from
/k/

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REFERENCES
Dresher, B. Elan. "The Phoneme". General Issues and Segmental Phonology,
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Senis, Angela. "The Contribution of John Rupert Firth to the History of Linguistics
and the Rejection of the Phoneme Theory." Console XXIII, 2015,
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01515010/document.
Accessed 29 Oct 2020.

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REFERENCES
Talib, Mohammad. "The Theory of Phoneme." Academia.Edu, 2019,
https://www.academia.edu/6629762/THE_THEORY_OF_PHONEME.
Accessed 29 Oct 2020.
"The Prague School". Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020,
https://www.britannica.com/science/linguistics/The-Prague-school.
Accessed 29 Oct 2020.
Wiese, Richard. "Phonology: Overview." Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics,
vol 9, 2006, pp. 562-564. Elsevier, doi:10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/00035-3.
Accessed 29 Oct 2020.