The emergence of distinctive features

The emergence of distinctive features / Jeff Mielke.

Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families. In doing so he systematically tests the supposition that features are innate and universal rat...

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Main Author: Mielke, Jeff
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
Subjects:
Distinctive features (Linguistics)
Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Phonetics & Phonology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; 1 Natural classes and distinctive features in phonology; 2 Phonetic and psycholinguistic evidence; 3 Survey methods; 4 Ambivalent segments; 5 Emergent feature theory; 6 General survey results; 7 Survey results in terms of feature theories; 8 The emergence of linguistic structure; Appendix A: Languages in the survey; Appendix B: Detailed survey results; Appendix C: Detailed phonetic similarity results; References; Language Index; Feature index; Index.

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