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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524864403321

Autore

Brakel Arthur

Titolo

Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features / Arthur Brakel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indiana University Press, 1983

Bloomington [Ind.] : , : Indiana University Press, , 1983

©1983

ISBN

0-253-05429-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource x, 132 pages) : : illustrations

Soggetti

Semiotics

Markedness (Linguistics)

Distinctive features (Linguistics)

Semiotique

Marque (Linguistique)

Traits pertinents (Linguistique)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features establishes a new set of parameters for use in phonological studies of language . Arthur Brakel finds the exciting well-known approaches to phonological description overly elaborate but at the same time inadequate for enumerating and analyzing the many sounds linguists know occur. In their place, he proposes a new set of nineteen articulatory primes based on a priori semiotic principles that establish a distinctive value or markedness of a particular sound quality or articulatory gesture . He bolsters his new theory by testing the primes with examples from the phonemes of twenty-three largely unrelated languages.