著者

Toshihiko Narita

出版者

The Society of English Studies

雑誌

現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.81-93, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)

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A comprehensive phonological description of a given language should be composed of a combination of numerous heterogeneous systems which accord with the complexity of the speech-continuum. Daniel Jones's kind of traditional phonemic approach to phonology, which grew out of the transcriptional requirement and completely and conveniently ignores phonological structure (i.e. grammar) and function (i.e. meaning), cannot take account of such complicated phenomena in language-utterance. In this article a detailed discussion of prosodic phonology-the first non-linear approach to phonology-will be used to demonstrate that considerations from other descriptive levels are highly relevant to the phonological description in the light of the complexity and the dynamic nature of the speech processing.