The emergence of distinctive features / Jeff Mielke.

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 rat...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Mielke, Jeff
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:	Oxford linguistics. Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
Subjects:	Distinctive features (Linguistics) Innateness hypothesis (Linguistics)