Emergence of distinctive features, the
Auteur :
Mielke, Jeff
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199233373
Date de publication :
13 mars 2008
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,6 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
467 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.