38 s. G.J.
As it is indicated in the
nomously ‘ generated ’ by
the grammatical system, in that the
them. At best, then, a
set of ‘potential’ - rather
Now let us look at the
mean to say that
language ?
In the approach underlyin
is what it mea
aspects and features of the speech flo
phenomena chosen for description) sh
as realizations
e may ask in what form sp
1 A speech-event may be a realization of more than one ‘sent
It may correspond to a set of successive, juxtaposed ‘sentences’; or it may, es
case of ‘puns’, correspond simultaneously to two or more ’ homonymous se
ctional form) are, in
s realizations of
e’ sectiens of speec
of expressions of slgna.
rms would have to be
recisely, of allomorphs)
onents of the at
phonological for 1W I as
attested form /r/,2 etc.
n our modified v
tends to all those phonological fo
appearance as se&contained entities
whether they consti
forms of these allom
form is required to
the grammatical system - some att
components in the forms of al
On the other hand, if the output of the phenol
to attested phonological forms - those actually
tion of data to a narrowly selected,
the incorporation of ‘gaps’ in,
each time a paradigm is missin
24tilizedin grammar.
the phonological system of
etween two consonant phone
mute with one another in nuclear position
/put/ attested in
sals put forward by
of the problem of ‘accidental
49, 1966).
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42 S.G.J.
(a) if /vitr@/ were shown to
disjunct phonotagms ;
(b) if /vitr$l/ were shown to
contiguous phonotagms?
As far as actual attestation is
can, by itself, constitute the
‘real’, and is in that instance att
piece of evidence, while not in itse
that /vitrirl/ might be regarded
add to this the fact that neith
forms of allomorphs of signa-
nuclei
have fairly
that w
we extrapolated
/vit/ perhaps
found a
a sense, then, their
than of
necessary
forms of allomorphs
will, of course, still n
forms, but it class them
forms
e The contiguity of juxtaposed phonota ms, involving ’ facet banal
elements belong as much to one as
ulder 1968: 48, 1’711-179and
ramma~i~l system
.2 sums up our position
Phonological forms
identified by
calculation
of virtual members
of the set of
phonolugi zal forms
intuitions ‘exist’. No doubt,
their 6sentiment lingiristique’,
-formed in a way in which the
here is a wide range of ‘intermeents
of ’ webformedness’ are not clearcut.
assing the use of purely intuitive
sh those discrete and
guage which have a potentially
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maintaining that a phono
/ii+- tlQ
re and throughout, arrows will
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w
b
w
M
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n
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M
.r(
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e form of an allomo
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one, we are forced to a
rters’ directly attests a sin
rm of the Signum ’ contr
realized, in my expe
ates for nuclear status.
t that does not com-
Criterion I
he extrapolatior of a potential (no
by a nuclear element wi
at least two directly attest
same dist~i~~tiona~type
e validity of this criterion
principle - by insistin
cases but from regularitie
of extrapolation ‘ one swallow
potential holds for at leas
rity. us, unless the poten
occur without dependents h
call that potential a matt
use this potential as a
attested cases belong t
phonotagm whose extrapolation is in
for extrapolation, since
affect the potential ‘we1
Criterion 2
he evidence of directly attested
that extrapolation i
12, I have
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EL.
3
M.
3
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0
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L.
3
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of certain vowels fi
/6/ (form of the sign
/6/ (form of the sigrz
/a/ (form of the slgnum ‘
/e/ (form of the sign
ungarian permits any n
s*
M-_n
CAM
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remote possibility.
regularities n
conclusion, s
glish we find the
(witness the signa ‘stren
a:- --)Io_wever, sIIIIc;E; there is, in
left-hand dependents can, i
hand dependents, or vice ve
on the basis of extrapolation, admit
phonotagm.
same nucleus :
the occurrence of two left-h
occurrence of more
Consequently, althou
/nmal/ an
am indebted to Mr. S. Wadj- mmed for
P
nt t
60 J.
ay have the value
is ce is r .
62 IS.
No! on the contrrzry,
both /t/ as a direct left-h
! cm the contrary,
suggest that such a poss
would, on application
olation of /trabl/.
Consequently, we may r
nglish.
Step I
Selection of a nuclear element
nuclear distribution of this phoneme.
Step 2
es! on the basis of atteste
left-hand depen
at this point, an
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nurn. Semiotica 4.
from a functional