Prototypicality and the Concept of Phoneme

The phonology of a language, operating on its own principles of organisation, is a cognitive phenomenon as well as semantic structure. However, the Cognitive Grammar literature on phonological issues is incomparable to the semantic ones. It is even more sparse when phonology of Slavic languages is c...

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Matična publikacija: Glossos
6 (2005.), str. 1-13
Glavni autori: Jelaska, Zrinka (-), Gulešić Machata, Milvia (Author)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://http://seelrc.org/glossos/
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