The technique of Distributional analysis.

The descriptive method consisted of the several procedures.

The first procedures are segmentation or division of speech float of speech when it is recorded. During these procedures the linguists were to pick out identical streams phonemes which were called morphemes first stage.

The second step – to identify the morphs that is to find out weather they acquire in the same distributional or not.

E. g.: Books

Walks are found in one distribution

Pens

Runs

Foxes

Dresses Identical phoneticall variant

 

The second scheme: he walks, he runs, he dresses – other morphemes. The distribution is the same and the meaning of the morphemes is the same. The meaning of plurality. Then the morph belongs to the same morpheme. There is a sly phonetical difference them we have allomorphs of the same morpheme.

 

Distribution is called complementary (дополнительная дистрибуция)

Morphemes must be identified in contrasting distribution. Morphs should have identical meaning. And thus we include replacive allomorphs into morphemes.

 

E. g. человек мужчина man men [] [e]

Woman women [u] [e]

Mouse mice [ou] [ai]