The Emergence of Distinctive Features
Author | : Jeff Mielke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
ISBN-10 | : 1383034729 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781383034721 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Emergence of Distinctive Features by : Jeff Mielke
Download or read book The Emergence of Distinctive Features written by Jeff Mielke and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost 600 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.