Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their Correlates - Paperback

by Roman Jakobson (Author), Gunnar Fant (Author), Morris Halle (Author)

This work attempts to describes the ultimate discrete components of language, their specific structure, and their articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual correlates, and surveys their utilization in the language of the world. First published in 1951, this edition contains an added paper on Tenseness and Laxness.