The emergence of distinctive features [[electronic resource] /] / Jeff Mielke

• Autore: Mielke Jeff
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 414
• Soggetto topico: Distinctive features (Linguistics); Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The emergence of distinctive features
• ISBN: 1-383-03472-9; 1-281-34145-2; 9786611341459; 0-19-152594-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784723603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.