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ISBN: | 9780191525940 0191525944 1281341452 9781281341457 9786611341459 6611341455 9780199207916 0199207917 9780199233373 0199233373
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Mielke, Jeff. Emergence of distinctive features. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199207916 0199207917
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