Reduction as the way of the language economy manifestation

Аннотация

The history of language economy has a long tradition. It has been addressed by various thinkers, starting with Aristotle. Systematic study of the principle of economy in language should be associated with research in the field of phonetics and, above all, with the names of such linguists as H.Sweet, P.Passy, V.Whitney, who indicated the presence of two opposite trends in the language: the tendency to facilitate pronunciation and its opposite — the tendency to redundancy. Keywords: The principle of economy, qualitative reduction, tendency to redundancy, cognitive categories, linguistic compression, loss of aspiration.