Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.
The phoneme theory. Shcherba.
L.V. Shcherba developed Baudouin de Courtenay’s views.
He separated phonetics from phonology and stated that sounds also possess functional properties.
In every language all speech sounds are united in a comparatively small number of sound types which are capable of distinguishing the meaning and the form of words.
The phoneme theory
. Shcherba
Such types are called phonemes. The numerous speech sounds we actually utter are phonemic variations – allophones.
Shcherba’s conception is a truly materialistic theory of the phoneme.
He was the first who defined the phoneme as a real independent distinctive unit which manifests itself in the form of allophones.
a London-born British phonetician considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century. He was head of the Department of Phonestics at University College, London.
The phoneme theory. Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones was a founder of the so-called ‘physical’ view which regards the phoneme as a ‘family’ of related sounds in which various members of the ‘family’ must be similar to one another, but no member of the ‘family ‘ may occur in the same phonetic context as the other.
The phoneme theory. Daniel Jones
The physicalapproach overestimates the material aspect of the phoneme as it regards the phoneme as a group of articulatory similar sounds without any regard to its functional and abstract aspects.
