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Distinctive Feature Theory
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Author : T. Alan Hall
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Distinctive Feature Theory written by T. Alan Hall and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, Portuguese, Tahltan, Terena, Tswana, Tuvan, and Zoque. The subjects dealt with in the book include feature geometry, underspecification (in rule-based and in Opti-mality Theoretic treatments) and the phonetic implementation of phonological features. Other topics include laryngeal features (e.g. [voice], [spread glottis], [nasal]), and place features for consonants and vowels. The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on feature theory and/or the phonetics-phonology interface.
The Emergence Of Distinctive Features
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Author : Jeff Mielke
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Typology and
Release Date : 2008
The Emergence Of Distinctive Features written by Jeff Mielke and has been published by Oxford Studies in Typology and this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a set characterizing all possible phonological distinctions and as an integral part of Universal Grammar, the innate language faculty underlying successive versions of Chomskyan generative theory. The usefulness of distinctive features in phonological analysis is uncontroversial, but the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific has never, until now, been systematically tested. In his pioneering account 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. He shows that no theory is able to characterize more than 71 percent of classes, and further that current theories, deployed either singly or collectively, do not predict the range of classes that occur and recur. He reveals the existence of apparently unnatural classes in many languages. Even without these findings, he argues, there are reasons to doubt whether distinctive features are innate: for example, distinctive features used in signed languages are different from those in spoken languages, even though deafness is generally not hereditary. The author explains the grouping of sounds into classes and concludes by offering a unified account of what previously have been considered to be natural and unnatural classes. The data on which the analysis is based are freely available in a program downloadable from the publisher's web site.
The Acquisition Of Distinctive Features
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Author : Stephen E. Blache
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Acquisition Of Distinctive Features written by Stephen E. Blache and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Phonological Markedness And Distinctive Features
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Author : Arthur Brakel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Phonological Markedness And Distinctive Features written by Arthur Brakel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Phonetic Variation And Acoustic Distinctive Features
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Author : Clara N. Bush
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Phonetic Variation And Acoustic Distinctive Features written by Clara N. Bush and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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Some Distinctive Features Of Islam
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Author : Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad
language : en
Publisher: Islam International
Release Date : 1995
Some Distinctive Features Of Islam written by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad and has been published by Islam International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
Some distinctive features of islam was a lecture delivered by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh) at the University of Canberra, Australia. The speaker builds up his lecture on the thesis that the most distinctive feature of Islam is twofold. First, it is the only religion which claims to be, and is, the final, the universal and eternal religion for all times and for all peoples. Second, it is the only religion which acknowledges, and bears witness to, the veracity of every other religions and claims that the truth is not the monopoly of Islam aloneówhereas every other religion claims that it alone contains the Divine truth. Then Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh) answers at some length the question that if all religions are from God then why is there any difference in religions. Moreover he argues three main points: that Islamic teachings are not only universal and eternal but are also complete, comprehensive and perfect; that the Holy Quran is the final and immutable word of God free from all human interpolation; and that the Prophet of Islam, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) is the Seal of the Prophetsóthe best of themóand the perfect model of excellence for mankind. In the middle part of lecture he discuses seventeen features of Islam which distinguish it from other religion and ideologies including the Islamic concept of justice and Islamic teachings regarding the form and function of government. At the end the speaker introduces the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Community itself to his audience concluding his lecture with an excerpt from the writings of the Promised Messiah (as).
Survey Of Access And Benefit Sharing Country Measures Accommodating The Distinctive Features Of Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture And Associated Traditional Knowledge
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2021-09-01
Survey Of Access And Benefit Sharing Country Measures Accommodating The Distinctive Features Of Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture And Associated Traditional Knowledge written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Science categories.
The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, at its Seventeenth Regular Session, requested its Secretary to prepare for review by the intergovernmental technical working groups on animal, aquatic, forest and plant genetic resources to produce an up-to-date survey of existing legislative, administrative and policy approaches, including best practices, for ABS for the different subsectors of GRFA and traditional knowledge associated with GRFA held by indigenous peoples and local communities, with the aim of identifying typical approaches and lessons learned from their implementation, as well as challenges and possible solutions. The current survey comprises a baseline desktop review of legislation, policy and literature. It provides a review of how countries address the distinctive features of GRFA and TKGRFA based on the letter of their ABS legislative, administrative and policy measures rather than on how these measures have been implemented in practice. It therefore does not provide an analysis of the state of implementation, the challenges involved and possible solutions to these challenges. As such, it aims to provide a basis for future empirical research on how ABS measures work in practice for GRFA subsectors. A specific objective is to provide a typology of legislative, administrative and policy measures applying to ABS for GRFA and TKGRFA.
Recognizing Phonemes And Their Distinctive Features In The Brain
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Author : Wang Rui
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University
Release Date : 2011
Recognizing Phonemes And Their Distinctive Features In The Brain written by Wang Rui and has been published by Stanford University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
How the human brain processes phonemes has been a subject of interest for linguists and neuroscientists for a long time. Electroencephalography (EEG) offers a promising approach to observe neural activities of phoneme processing in the brain, thanks to its high temporal resolution, low cost and noninvasiveness. The studies on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) effects in EEG activities in the 1990s suggested the existence of a language-specific central phoneme representation in the brain. Recent findings using magnetoencephalograph (MEG) also suggested that the brain encodes the complex acoustic-phonetic information of speech into the representations of phonological features before the lexical information is retrieved. However, very little success has yet been reported in classifying the brain activities associated with phoneme processing. In my work, I proposed a classification framework which incorporates Principal Components Analysis (PCA), cross-validation and support vector machine (SVM) methods. The initial classification rates were not very good. Progress was made by using bootstrap aggregation (Bagging) scheme and introducing phase calculations. To calculate phase, I computed the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of the original time-domain signal and kept the angles of the finite sample of frequencies. The resulting EEG spectral representation contains only the phase and frequency information and ignores the amplitudes. Using this method, the accurate rate of classifying averaged test samples of eight consonants improved from 41% to 51%. Furthermore, the qualitative analysis of the similarities between the EEG representations, derived from the confusion matrices, illustrates the invariance of brain and perceptual representation of phonemes. For brain and perceptual representation of consonants, voicing is the most distinguishable feature among voicing, continuant and place of articulation. And the feature vowel-height is more robust than vowel-backness in both brain and perceptual representation of vowels. By extending and further refining these methods, it is likely significant classification of other phonemes and features can be made.
The Distinctive Features Of The Baptist Denomination A Discourse Etc
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Author : Edward Bean UNDERHILL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
The Distinctive Features Of The Baptist Denomination A Discourse Etc written by Edward Bean UNDERHILL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.
The American Slave Code In Theory And Practice Its Distinctive Features Shewn By Its Statutes Judicial Decisions Illustrative Facts
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Author : William GOODELL (Reformer.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The American Slave Code In Theory And Practice Its Distinctive Features Shewn By Its Statutes Judicial Decisions Illustrative Facts written by William GOODELL (Reformer.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.