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The emergence of distinctive features /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 rather than learned and language-specific. - ;This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191525940 0191525944 1281341452 9781281341457 9786611341459 6611341455 |