Lecture 2 phonological theories I. A. Baudouin de Courtenay’s Theory of Phonology

штатский, шведский where /тс/ and /дс/ form the affricate /ц/.

Some Moscow phopnologists, especially, A.A. Reformatsky gave a classification of phonological oppositions and presented a new approach to the problem of neutralization. It should be stated that their theory is commonly applied to the description of Russian phonemes; it was also fruitful in the analysis of the phonological systems of other languages. The Moscow phonologists described the suprasegmental features of syllables, stress and intonation. Besides, they improved the morphonological theory advanced by N.S. Trubetzkoy. According to A.A. Reformatsky morphonology is a «bridge» level between phonology and morphology. N.S. Trubetzkoy included almost all the phonemic alternations into morphonology and used the term «morphoneme». However, morphonology must not only study the alternations of segmental phonemes but can analyse the alternations of supraseg-mental elements i.e. stress alternations in morphemes. In the Russian words