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Phonemic analysis is/was motivated by several considerations. Explain

      

Phonemic analysis is/was motivated by several considerations. Explain

  

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Francis
- A need to overcome the massive detail that ever narrows description provides’.
- A practical need to create alphabetical systems appropriate for a given language.
- A belief that people have a psychologically real notion of the sounds of their language in a fashion that corresponds to phonemes not to phones.
- A recognition that there are constancies across dialects that involve objects more abstract than sounds; these objects are phonemes.
francis1897 answered the question on August 23, 2022 at 13:39


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