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French Quadri-Phonematic Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

G. L. Bursill-Hall
G. L. Bursill-Hall*
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University of British Columbia
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The structural linguist has recently begun to pay more and more attention not only to the sequences of the phonemes of a language but also to their capacity for combination. Trubetzkoy said: “La neutralisation des oppositions phonologiques est sûrement le phénomène le plus important, mais nullement le seul important dans le domaine de la théorie des combinaisons”. Much has been done on the distribution of these phonemic combinations and their functional yield, but little to determine and systematise the frequency of such occurrences, and to deduce from them some general principle. This is particularly true with reference to the consonantal clusters of the French language, though more has been done with other languages especially English.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1959 , pp. 35 - 45
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1959

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