The Emergence of Distinctive Features (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

by JeffMielke (Author)

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  2008

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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.