This concept was named by the Pole Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.
This concept was named by the Pole Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. Though, it was developed in part by Henry Sweet and Daniel Jones, the latter writing a book on the subject subtitled "Its Nature and Use." Abandoned in the generative grammar of Noam Chomsky, it is symbolically represented as a unit between two slash marks. Separate ones exist in a "complementary distribution" of variants called allophones. FTP, name this smallest distinct unit of sound in a spoken language.
This concept was named by the Pole Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.
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