Moscow Phonological School

Tasks :

1. The creation of writing for the peoples who did not have it.

2. Elimination of illiteracy.

Main ideas (Reformatsky, Kuznetsov, Fortunatov):

1. The problem of determining phonemes (through the morphemic composition) (In the Leningrad phonological school - through the word form).

2. They singled out 5 vowel phonemes (a, o, y, y, e), soft consonants did not distinguish - only hard ones (LFSh - on the contrary).

3. Developed a system of phoneme functions: 1) sense differentiation; 2) construction; 3) perceptual; 4) identification of morphemes. In LFSh - only the first three.

4. Highlighted the strong and weak positions of phonemes (LFS did not highlight the strong and weak positions. The phoneme was close to the sound. It was determined by the sound in speech).

The phoneme is an abstract unit.