Jeff Mielke

The Emergence of Distinctive Features

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Typology and
• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199207916
• ISBN-10: 0199207917
• Artikelnr.: 23580491

Autorenporträt

Jeff Mielke is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. In 2003 he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship at Ohio State University and achieved his PhD the following year. He then undertook postdoctoral research at the Phonological Imaging Laboratory at the University of Arizona before moving to Ottawa in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Appendices
Bibliography