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The Distributional Identification of Finnish Morphophonemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Robert Austerlitz
Robert Austerlitz*
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Columbia University
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Abstract

For the sake of argument, the extreme view is taken that the identification of phonological entities on the basis of articulatory or acoustic features is not in keeping with the strict structural linguistic tenet that only information from language itself be employed in determining the units used in linguistic description. The attempt is then made to show how the morphophonemes of Finnish are distinct from each other on the basis of their distribution within the word. The notions employed in the analysis are taken only from within language; i.e. no reference is made to nature or to the human body. The weaknesses of this approach are also pointed out.

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1967, pp. 20 - 33
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Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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