Exponent (linguistics) - Identity

Identity

The identity exponent is both simple and common: it has no phonological manifestation at all.

An example in English:
DEER + → deer

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Famous quotes containing the word identity:

    An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    The “female culture” has shifted more rapidly than the “male culture”; the image of the go-get ‘em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let’s take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men’s underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women’s feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.
    Arlie Hochschild (20th century)