Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Table of Contents - 01 June 1974 - Volume 4, Issue 01  

Articles

The lexical item as a phonetic entity

R. K. Sprigga1

a1 (School of Oriental and African Studies)

‘“… there is more near-ambiguity in language than it is always convenient to admit”; and in studying stress and juncture it would be especially valuable, in order to avoid too great a reliance either on introspection or on artificially contrived confrontations, to make a collection of ambiguities in action in the form of fully-documented instances of uncertainty of interpretation or of actual misunderstanding‘ (Sharp, 1960: 112–13).