John Rupert Firth Quote

It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that words, not phones or phonemes or phoneme systems, are the units of speech.


p. 182-183; As cited in: Angela Senis (2016: 293) - Speech, 1930


It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that...

It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that...

It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that...

It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that...