The Emergence of Distinctive Features |
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| Author:
| Mielke, Jeff |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-152594-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Publisher: | Ebsco Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $144.78 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.