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Double articulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Double articulation refers to the division of the stream of speech into meaningful signs plus their further subdivision into meaningless elements. See figurae. For consonants with two simultaneous pr...
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However, closer inspection reveals that duality of patterning also underlies these systems, although it is structurally independent of the relationship between the phonological and morphological strata of language.
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The illustration in the graphic view is supposed to show how the process of changing the sequence of words or symbols, changes the meaning. ... E MC 2 ! (or phonetically, Energy, ... (It's not the most scientific kind of illustration but then we are only a Class II University so we can get away with that kind of stuff.)
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This was called "duality of patterning" by Charles Hockett in his celebrated list of characteristic properties of human language. More concretely, we could call it the "phonological principle".
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Presumably because of this potential confusion, theoretical linguists have largely abandoned the use of the term articulation in the structural sense, preferring to refer to 'duality of patterning', but semioticians continue to use the term.
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Source(s): Crystal 2001: 94 (duality of structure); Crystal 2003: 151; Lyons 1971: 54 (double structure); Matthews 1974: 9 (dual structure); Matthews 1997: 104, 106; Nash 1968: 65 (duality of patterning); Nöth 1990: 237 (duality of patterning);
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