The purpose of both phonemic and morphophonemic analysis is to produce simpler underlying descriptions for what appear on the surface to be complicated patterns.

Karlgren himself viewed phonemic analysis as a detrimental "craze".

Different authors have proposed differing phonemic analyses of this situation:

A set of postulates for phonemic analysis.

The concept of the phoneme was introduced in Chapter 5, and a few theoretical problems connected with phonemic analysis have been mentioned in other chapters.

This rather long discussion of the phonemic status of and shows how difficult it can be to reach a conclusion in phonemic analysis.

The phonemic analysis of the velar nasal has already been discussed above (notes on Chapter 7).

Rhyme tables from the Song dynasty contain a sophisticated feature analysis of the Qieyun initials and finals, though not a full phonemic analysis.

The behavior of retroflexed finals provides some evidence for the phonemic analysis of main vowels.

Marshallese spelling is based on pronunciation rather than a phonemic analysis.