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[ noun ] a system that is part of some larger system
Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)If , as I suspect , the problem is largely of the second sort , then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems . One issue that must be faced is the relative difficulty of analysis of different phonologic subsystems . Other pairs of phonologic subsystems also interact or overlap in this way ; for_example , duration sometimes figures in both the vowel_system and the intonation . The difficulty of analysis of any subsystem in the phonology is an inverse_function of the size - smaller systems are more troublesome - for any given degree of morphophonemic complexity . Related terms |
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