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Facts and Phonemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Einar Haugen and
W. F. Twaddell
Einar Haugen
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
W. F. Twaddell
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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1. The Syllabic Phonemes of English by Trager and Bloch (Lang. 17.223–46) is an attempt to set forth a partial phonemic analysis of American English. The analysis, though partial, is ambitious; it displays thoughtful ingenuity and confident independence; and its conclusions are in some particulars spectacular. It is accordingly in order to consider whether the procedures of analysis represent sound and fruitful techniques. If they do, the scope of linguistic investigation has been substantially broadened; if not, they are seductive but dangerous.

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Language , Volume 18 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1942, pp. 228 - 237
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Copyright © 1942 Linguistic Society of America

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1 Haugen prepared the first draft of §§2, 5, 7; Twaddell of §§1, 3, 4, 6, 8.

2 American Speech 16.204–7 (1941).

3 For example, by Heffner and co-workers, in American Speech 12.128–34 (1937).

4 In part as yet unpublished.

5 Cf. Y. R. Chao, The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems, Bull. of the Inst. of History and Philology (Academia Sinica) 4.374 (1934).

6 Cf. Chao 369.