Form Unit ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/FormUnit


Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Unit
                  |_ Form Unit

Direct SubConcepts:

Segment  Mora  Phoneme  Foot  Grapheme  Suprasegmental  Syllable  Toneme  


Definition:

A FormUnit is any unit of linguistic form; the abstract form component of a linguistic sign. Subclasses include various phonology units such as Phoneme, Mora, PhonologicalWord, etc.




PropertiesValuesDefinition
acoustic Realization Spoken Linguistic Expression     The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding spoken expression.
constituents Thing     The relation holding between a linguistic unit and a list (rdf:Seq) of its constituents.
has Constituent Linguistic Unit     The relation hasConstituent is an abstract partial ordering relation that expresses dominance between two linguistic units. This relation is meant to cover all possible types of linguistic constituency: phonological, morphological, syntactic, etc. constituency.
in Language Human Language Variety     The relation that holds between a LinguisticSign and a Language. The sign is said to be a member or part of that language.
realization Linguistic Expression     The relation holding between a linguistic unit and its physical form, either a spoken, written or signed expression.
signed Realization Signed Linguistic Expression     The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding signed expression.
string Rep string    
written Realization Written Linguistic Expression     The relation between some linguistic unit and its corresponding written expression.

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Status: Pending Needs subclassification - Anthony Aristar
2010-07-11 01:49:36

This should be subclassified into SpokenUnit and WrittenUnit. The current children of FormUnit should then become the children of the correct subconcept. (Grapheme should become the child of WrittenUnit, the rest children of SpokenUnit.)