The Emergence of Distinctive Features

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Mielke, Jeff (University of Ottawa) Mielke, Mielke Jeff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2008
• EAN: 9780199207916
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920791-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory