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Where do phonological features come from? : cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories /

This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come Fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clements, George N., Ridouane, Rachid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2011.
Colección:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where Do Phonological Features Come From?; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Obituary; List of contributors; Part 1. Introduction; Editors' Overview; Part II. General and cognitive issues; Features, segments, and the sources of phonological primitives; Feature economy in natural, random, and synthetic inventories; Part III. Acoustic and articullatory bases of features; Sound systems are shaped by their users; What features underline the /s/ vs. /s'/ contrast in Korean?; Automaticity vs. feature-enhancement in the control of segmental F0.
  • Part IV. Extracting features from the signalCategorization and Features; Features as an emergent product of computing perceptual cues relative to expectations; Features are phonological transforms of natural boundaries; Part V. Features in phonological development; Features in child phonology; Phonological features in infancy; Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of American English 2-3 year-olds; Language index; Subject index.