Uddrag fra Semantics. Scope, Definitions, Methods, [Nice1951] 046-0630

that Just one element different, e.g. foo.y and girl. on night and day. It may be complex, e.g. clock and thermometer. Two meanings may have no common feature, e.g. Charles and between. The feature! of a moaning always, or often, are more or less central or periplierie in relation to each other. In girl the feature of human being is more central than that of young and of female. Analogously the marks of a significant arc arranged in a similar hierarchic way. The phonemes of a word, and their order are more central than the number of oyl- lables, which, in its turn, is more central than absence or presence, cr the place of word accent, nalogoualy, the distinctive features of a mark of a significant always, or very often, are arranged hier - arohically* Evidently the pitch formats of a vowel in Latin are more central than length, features of meanings, of forms of significant«, and of marks of significants. In combinations are of different rank. The structure of a system in language is a collection of relations between the members of the system. These relations are not only op- positions, but also a matter of rank. The opposition between the mean- tog of the words hoy and girl is the same as that between the word groups vaung huraafl mala and sauna human ferale. i.e. the identical and the different features are the same. The rank, however, within the same meanings, is different.