![]() ![]() ![]() For the moment, it is worth noting that Sapir’s grammatical formulations stayed within lin-guistic categories. ![]() How different Sapir’s psychologism is from this will be discussed in Part 3 below. However, the probability of finding other consonants (not Ɂ) after the second vowel is related merely to the frequency of those consonants medially and at morpheme-end. The probability of finding Ɂ after the Second vowel is related to the frequency of the glottal stop (medial and at the end of morphemes) plus the frequency of morphemes which end with a vowel (and of morphemes which begin with a vowel). Then the probability of finding Ɂ rather than some other consonant after the FIRST vowel of a word is related simply to the frequency of the medial glottal stop. To make this more explicit: Suppose all word-initial morphemes have two or more syllables (vowels). ![]() Hoenigswald, ‘Sound Change and Linguistic Structure’, Lg. Sapir’s article on glottalized continuants (225–50), and Henry M. Newman, Yokuts Language of California, New York 1944. Newman’s very interesting review of this book IJAL 17 (1951), 180–5, in which there is some explanation of Sapir’s unusual style of writing.įerdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale, 125. I would like to call attention to Stanley S. Page numbers refer directly to the volume under review, without specifying the particular article involved. ![]()
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