03059nam 2200637Ia 450 991045088830332120200520144314.01-281-34145-297866113414590-19-152594-4(CKB)1000000000405939(EBL)415863(OCoLC)437096243(SSID)ssj0000145775(PQKBManifestationID)11157403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145775(PQKBWorkID)10183034(PQKB)10720256(MiAaPQ)EBC415863(Au-PeEL)EBL415863(CaPaEBR)ebr10218539(CaONFJC)MIL134145(EXLCZ)99100000000040593920071128d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe emergence of distinctive features[electronic resource] /Jeff MielkeOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (299 p.)Oxford linguisticsOxford studies in typology and linguistic theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-923337-3 0-19-920791-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents; Preface; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; 1 Natural classes and distinctive features in phonology; 2 Phonetic and psycholinguistic evidence; 3 Survey methods; 4 Ambivalent segments; 5 Emergent feature theory; 6 General survey results; 7 Survey results in terms of feature theories; 8 The emergence of linguistic structure; Appendix A: Languages in the survey; Appendix B: Detailed survey results; Appendix C: Detailed phonetic similarity results; References; Language Index; Feature index; IndexJeff 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 Oxford linguistics.Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.Distinctive features (Linguistics)Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)Electronic books.Distinctive features (Linguistics)Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)414Mielke Jeff982112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450888303321The emergence of distinctive features2241409UNINA