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Phonology in the twentieth century

by Stephen R. Anderson

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Bearing all these propositions in mind, we can formulate a sort of definition of a phoneme in these terms : a family of sounds in a given language which are related in character and are used in such a way that no one member ever occurs in a word in the same phonetic context as any other member.

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