was later Professor Emeritus of the university.

Work

Pike is best known for his distinction between the ''emic'' and the ''etic''. "Emic" (as in "phonemics") refers to the role of cultural and linguistic categories as understood from within the cultural or linguistic system that they are a part of, while "etic" (as in "phonetics") refers to the analytical study of those sounds grounded outside of the system itself. Pike

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