Phoneme, Phone, and Compound Phone

Abstract

The authot proposes new phonological concepts ‘zero-phoneme’, ‘phone’. and ‘compound phone’, with which he succeeds in explaining the so-calied ‘juncture’ as a phonemic phenomenon not as a. supraphonemic one, and tries to establiksh the ‘Synthese’ of Twaddell's and Trager-Bloch's interpretation of the vowels and diphthongs of English. He maintains also that in phonemics the general law of assimilation and the articulatory, similarties are more important than the principle of economy, explaining with the illustrations of the Japanese phonemes /t, c/and/gη/.