The Emergence of Distinctive Features

Jeff (, University of Ottawa) Mielke

Oxford University Press, 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.

ISBN-13
9780199207916
ISBN-10
0199207917
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-03-13
Pages
300
Dimensions
242x163x23
Weight
605