Jezične i nejezične sastavnice govora
The Language and Non-Linguistic Elements of Speech

Summary/Abstract: The realization of speech as a concrete system, as opposed to language as an abstract system, includes problems of realizing those elements in speech that could be labeled as non-linguistic, or elements that are not part of language. This raises the issue of what ‘linguistic’ means, or, in other words, what determines and belongs to language, and what belongs to speech and how it is determined. Language practice shows that, particularly at an early stage of language acquisition, non-linguistic elements contain not only phonetic and phonological characteristics, but also morphological, syntactic and, to some extent, even lexical characteristics pertaining to linguistic elements. This paper studies a detachment from the language system on two basic communication levels: a) the word level, referring to the isolated expression which is difficult or even impossible to understand exactly due to its isolation; b) the sentence level, or the minimal context necessary to facilitate understanding.

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