A Set of Postulates for Phonemic Analysis 论文

摘要

0.1. Leonard Bloomfield was the first to state explicitly some of the assumptions that underlie the methods of linguistic science; his formulation of these axioms in the second volume of LANGUAGE has remained for more than twenty years the only attempt of its kind. We may find it necessary now, in the light of recent theoretical discussions, to make certain changes of detail in his list of assumptions; but the importance of his article as a contribution to linguistic theory is undiminished. Whoever undertakes, in future, to apply the postulational approach to linguistics, will find his task made easier by the model that Bloomfield has provided.