The emergence of distinctive features /

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Author / Creator:Mielke, Jeff.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Oxford linguistics
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory
Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11163466
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ISBN:9780191525940
0191525944
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and indexes.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Mielke, Jeff. Emergence of distinctive features. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199207916 0199207917