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The traditional meaning of the term’ syncretism’ is, according to Marouzeau: “le phénomène par lequel une forme se trouve appelée à cumuler plusieurs fonctions” (Lexique de la terminologie linguistique, 1943, p. 205). For instance the Latin ablative which has taken over the functions of the instrumental and the locative.
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Trubetzkoy, Grundzüge der Phonologie, TCLP VII, 1939, p. 71.
A. Martinet, Phonology as Functional Phonetics, 1949, p. 5.
“Etant donnée la structure de l’appareil phonique, il n’est pas étonnant que des accomodations des mouvements automatisés les uns aux autres viennent contrader la simplicité des combinaisons … De lá aussi des faits de neutralisation …” (J. Fourquet, Analyse linguistique et analyse phonologique, TCLC V 1949, p. 43).
Cf. also Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Phonemics, Archiv f. Vergl. Phonetik, V, 1951, p. 170–200, esp. p. 10 of the translated reprint.
Pike: Grammatical Prerequisites to Phonemic Analysis, Word 3, 1947, p. 155–172.
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Siertsema, B. (1955). Syncretism and Catalysis. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6671-5_11
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