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Concerning Transcription

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

R.-M. S. Heffner
R.-M. S. Heffner*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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In his review of Bloomfield's book Language, Kent (LANGUAGE 10.40-8) has dealt with what will seem to many a very objectionable feature of this volume, namely the system of transcription therein proposed. The purpose of all legitimate publication is, presumably, to make one's self understood, and there are features of Bloomfield's system which operate to defeat, or at any rate to make needlessly painful the achievement of that purpose.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1934 , pp. 286 - 290
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Copyright © 1934 Linguistic Society of America

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1 I am using the term ‘phonological’ in the sense given it by the Prague Circle [TCLP 4.311], and Bloomfield's term ‘scientifically relevant’ may be equated to their term ‘phonologically valid’. A general bibliography of the important contributions of this group and its critics to the study of the phoneme in particular and of the new phonology in general may now be found in the Idg. Jahrb. 17, or in the article of Vachek, English Studies 15.81ff. The movement began seriously in 1928.