Talk:Q5371079
Autodescription — emic unit (Q5371079)
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Classification[edit]
I changed the instance of (P31) statements, as this item is a class of type of sound, which should not be mixed up with types themselves. For the rationale see Help:Classification. author TomT0m / talk page 08:54, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Definition of "emit unit"[edit]
It is hard to find much online. I found this in Google Books: "Pike defines an emic unit as “[...] a physical or mental item or system treated by insiders as relevant to their system of behavior and as the same emic unit in spite of etic variability” (Pike 1990:28)." Dan Polansky (talk) 19:31, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
And I find: "An emic unit, such as a phoneme or morpheme, is an invariant form obtained from the reduction of a class of variant forms to a limited number of abstract units."[1]
It is really abstract and hard to understand; a much better job of clarification is required, and perhaps some decent source.