Phoneme analysis

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The phoneme analysis is a method of phonology for the determination of the phoneme and for the establishment of phoneme inventories depending on certain language-theoretical assumptions.

Statements about the phoneme status are the result of a phoneme analysis. This method was developed by representatives of the Prague School (especially Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy , Roman Jakobson ). The basis of every phoneme analysis is a corpus of spoken language utterances. Each of these utterances is initially available as a phonetic continuum that needs to be broken down (segmented) into distinct phonetic units. In the case of foreign or hardly studied languages, this segmentation process can encounter considerable difficulties. If a scientist works in his own language or in a language he is very familiar with, he can rely on his experience as well as his linguistic intuition for segmentation. The segmentation obtained must be transcribed as closely as possible, i.e. H. into a phonetic transcription in order to make them accessible for further analysis. The phonetic alphabet of the International Phonetic Association is most commonly used.

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