ABSTRACT

Elementary analytical process of taxonomic structuralism for isolating the smallest linguistic elements, such as phones, morphs, or syllables, among others. The criterion of segmentation is the substitutability of the isolated element with another such element of the same class, e.g. [k] in cap [kaep] can be isolated through segmentation and replaced by [g, 1, m, n, r, s, t] gap, lap, map, nap, rap, sap, tap. Through the complementary process of classification, one arrives at a class of consonants that can occur word-initially in English. ( also paradigmatic vs syntagmatic relationship, sound2)

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operational procedures, phonology, structuralism

Class of context-independent syntactic features (i.e. inherent features) of nouns (Chomsky 1965), or semantic features of whole noun phrases (McCawley 1968) that mark the selection restrictions between nouns or noun phrases and verbs. These selectional features are formulated as contextual indicators of the verbs. In this analysis, the two-place verb think (in its standard reading) can only be used with a [+human] subject and a prepositional phrase.