His linguistic theories has two different approaches to speak about
Medionalist view
The importance of the
combinations between
form and meaning in the
natural languages
Which considers
conceptions, for
example,
formal/nonformal
Distributionalist view
The connection of each unit
of language (phoneme, word,
syllabe, etc) in order to define
each individual language
inside the discurse
His study was
concerned about
Syntax and
Phonology because
He studied the cathegorized words in a
sentence and counted each of these
words
Which were performed by the speakers
He had an empiricist
methodology, and many
subfields of linguistics lean
in this view
Historical linguistics
Contemporary computacional linguistics
Which proposed to solve real
linguistic problems with
pragmatics rather than providing
a model to solve the problems of
each language.
Descriptive linguistics
All corpus linguistics
Which concerns logic and the relationship between a scientific
statement and observation statements about events in space
and time. Data is an integral part because it proves or not the
proposed theories.
He created the transformational analysis
His goal was to use Distributionalism
In order to analyze the components of the
sentence at different hierarchical levels, as
a new linguistic analysis
This statement was the basis
to establish a science of
external linguistic facts.
One external linguistic fact is corpora
Rather than a
science of
internalized
speaker knowledge
The phonemic
contrast is derived
from the native
speaker who is
always blending
sounds in the
distribution of
words in the
speaking
Note:
The
contrast
is
not
isolated
from
the
context
All utterances in language are
predictable realizations of a
language's choice of phonemes.
Sounds are analyzed as segments of speech in
no isolation which are pronounced in a certain
distribution, according to Harris.
Distributional contrasts are relevant
while phonetic contrasts are irrelevant.
In the distribution, two sounds are assigned to two
morphemens if their differences distinguish one
morpheme from another
This linguistic
analysis consists
of building a
representation
out of a finite
number of
formal objetcs
He was a mathematician who
explained syntax using
mathematical procedures
His central idea wasthat the structure of language can be
found from the non-equiprobability combination of parts.
Which means that the description of a language is the
description of "Contributory departures" from the point
of equiprobability.
Structure means restrictions on
how pieces can be put together
Restrictions may be
absolute with
statements of
distribution using
mathematical
vocabulary