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

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Analyzing the sound changes in the morphemic structure of a language, it is possible to establish two different positions: stressed and unstressed. In a stressed position phonemes can preserve their phonetic characteristics, while in an unstressed position they change their articulatory and acoustic features. This fact is very important in the phonetic analysis of Russian vowels. In the Russian word вода /vadˈ ʌ/ there are two variants or allophones of the phoneme /ʌ/: stressed and unstressed, which are different as to their quantitative feature because usually stressed vowels are longer than unstressed ones. But if we take the word forms