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The Phonemic Treatment of Semivowels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

George L. Trager
George L. Trager*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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[The paper examines the situations in which semivowels occur in specific languages, analyzes these situations phonemically, and generalizes from the examples.]

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Language , Volume 18 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1942 , pp. 220 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © 1942 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 For these terms see Trager and Bloch, The Syllabic Phonemes of English, Lang. 17.223–46 (1941); Hockett, A System of Descriptive Phonology, Lang. 18.3–21 (1942).

2 Cf. T. Navarro-Tomás, Manual de pronunciación española4 (Madrid, 1932); G. L. Trager, The Phonemes of Castillian Spanish, TCLP 8.217–22 (1939).

3 The phenomena summarized as Sievers' Law are not considered here, since they involve the question of shwa secundum, another and separate problem of IH phonemics.