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| ISBN: | 9780191525940
0191525944
1281341452
9781281341457
9786611341459
6611341455
9780199207916
0199207917
9780199233373
0199233373
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and indexes.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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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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