Author: Nordhjem, Bent
Title: The Phonemes of English. An Experiment in Structural Phonemics
Description: Copenhagen, G.E.C. Gad, 1960. orig.wrappers. 24x17cm, 215 pp, University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Textual charts. Some rubbing, some light stains to spine, Good+. ¶ Contents: Basic Problems; The Thesis: Expression & Content: An Epistemological Problem; One or Two Planes: A Paradox; The Speech Situation: The Traditional & Transitional Views; The Transitional View: Meaning as a Direct Relation between Expressions; Some Basic Semantic Relations; Meaning in Scientific Texts; The Text Game; The Final View: Consequences of the Final View for Linguistic Description; The Method: What is a Structure?; Fundamental Structural Concepts; Functional Formulae;Formulization; Categorization: Lines; Columns; Tables; Categories; Complex Sequences: General Remarks; The Description; The Data; The Technique; Graphemization; The Application: The Sequence; Tabulation: Inventories; Primary Medials; Removal, Transference, Deletion; Secondary Medials; The Table; Phonemization: Introductory Remarks; The Medial Sector;The Final Sector; The Phonemic Structure; Conclusion: The Phoneme.

Keywords: English Phonology, Phonetics, Phoneme, Structural, Germanic Languages, Language Structure, Phonemes, Phonemics, Linguistics