bi-uniqueness

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use in linguistic analysis

  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
    In linguistics: Phonology

    …to as the principle of bi-uniqueness. The phonemic specification of a word or utterance was held to determine uniquely its phonetic realization (except for free variation), and, conversely, the phonetic description of a word or utterance was held to determine uniquely its phonemic analysis. Thus, if two words or utterances…

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