phoneme

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

linguist

university professor

Yale University

innovator in the field of

behaviorism

linguistics

structural linguistics

intellectual movement

linguistic turn

pedagogue

university teacher

president of the Linguistic Society of America

is a minimum unit of distinctive sound feature.

Bloomfield (1933: 79) subsequently defines phoneme as 'a minimum unit of distinctive sound feature,' and it is clearer that 'same' or 'alike' and 'distinctive' are terms of the theory and not of the laboratory procedure for recording data.

Leonard Bloomfield

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