In descriptive linguistics he would not say that people inserted a glottal stop so as to avoid the sequence VV, but that the glottal stop constituted, in respect of medial VV, a ‘protection’ (in cross-boundary position) of that non-occurrence of VV. For the moment, it is worth noting that Sapir’s grammatical formulations stayed within lin-guistic categories. How different Sapir’s psychologism is from this will be discussed in Part 3 below. However, the probability of finding other consonants (not Ɂ) after the second vowel is related merely to the frequency of those consonants medially and at morpheme-end. The probability of finding Ɂ after the Second vowel is related to the frequency of the glottal stop (medial and at the end of morphemes) plus the frequency of morphemes which end with a vowel (and of morphemes which begin with a vowel). Then the probability of finding Ɂ rather than some other consonant after the FIRST vowel of a word is related simply to the frequency of the medial glottal stop. To make this more explicit: Suppose all word-initial morphemes have two or more syllables (vowels). Hoenigswald, ‘Sound Change and Linguistic Structure’, Lg. Sapir’s article on glottalized continuants (225–50), and Henry M. Newman, Yokuts Language of California, New York 1944.
Newman’s very interesting review of this book IJAL 17 (1951), 180–5, in which there is some explanation of Sapir’s unusual style of writing.įerdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale, 125. I would like to call attention to Stanley S. Amongst his famous works are Wishram Texts (ed 1909), Dreams and Gibes (1917) and Language (1921).Page numbers refer directly to the volume under review, without specifying the particular article involved. In his paper The Function of an International Auxiliary Language, Sapir argued for the benefits of a regular grammar and advocated a critical focus on the fundamentals of language unbiased by the idiosyncrasies of national languages in the choice of an international auxiliary language. He was also involved in the international auxiliary language movement. Sapir was a pioneer of the Yiddish (his native language) studies in the United States. His special focus among American languages was in the Athabaskan languages.
Some suggestions of Sapir about the influence of language on the ways in which people think were adopted and developed by Whorf. He was one of the first who explored the relations between language studies and anthropology. Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of the creators of what is now called the Sapir- Whorf hypothesis.
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