Sound Piece - Onseppen

Japanese: 音切片 - おんせっぺん
Sound Piece - Onseppen

...This segmentation is called "secondary segmentation." Both segments of meaning ("signemes") and segments of sound ("phonemes") show the analytical tendency of human ability, and in order to make full use of a larger whole, humans break it down into segments that they can easily control with their own abilities, and then control these parts with certainty. The enormous structure of language would not have been possible, and it would never have been able to exert the power it currently has, without the mediation of segments of meaning and segments of sound, elements that humans can certainly manipulate. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "sound slices" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この分節が〈第二次分節〉といわれるものである。 意味の切片(〈記号素〉)も音切片(〈音素〉)も人間の能力の分析的な傾向を示すものであり,人間は大きな全体を駆使するために,それを自分の能力で容易に制御できる切片に分解して,そのような部分を確実に制御するのである。言語という巨大な構築物は,意味の切片,音切片という人間にとって確実に操作できる要素を介することがなかったら成立しえなかったであろうし,またとうていそれが現にもっているような力を発揮できなかったであろう。…

※「音切片」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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