The Emergence Of Distinctive Features
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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.
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.
Distinctive Feature Theory
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Author : Piotr Ruszkiewicz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Distinctive Feature Theory written by Piotr Ruszkiewicz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Distinctive features (Linguistics) categories.
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.
Foundations Of Distinctive Feature Theory
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Author : Christiane A. M. Baltaxe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Foundations Of Distinctive Feature Theory written by Christiane A. M. Baltaxe 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.
This book provides a sound basis for continuing our research and application with the awareness that distinctive feature theory is still being developed. Those apply distinctive features in their analyses of phonemes in clinical work, education, engineering, psychology, language studies, and other fields are not only making use of a powerful tool but are also involved in testing the theory, answering some of the unresolved questions, and furthering the historical development of distinctive feature theory. A thorough reading of this book leads to an understanding of the fundamental issues involved in a distinctive feature theory.
Evolutionary Phonology
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Author : Juliette Blevins
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-22
Evolutionary Phonology written by Juliette Blevins and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.
Where Do Phonological Features Come From
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Author : George N. Clements
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Where Do Phonological Features Come From written by George N. Clements and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.
Behavioral Activation
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Author : Jonathan W. Kanter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-05-07
Behavioral Activation written by Jonathan W. Kanter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with Psychology categories.
Behavioral activation theory indicates that much clinically relevant human behavior is a function of positive reinforcement, and that when positive reinforcement is reduced, lost, or chronically low depression results. Behavioral activation encourages clients to obtain and nurture the skills that allow them to establish and maintain contact with diverse, stable sources of positive reinforcement. This creates a life of meaning, value and purpose. Behavioral Activation: Distinctive Features clarifies the fundamental theoretical and practical features of behavioral activation, integrating various techniques into a unified whole that is efficient and effective. The book includes numerous case examples and transcribed segments from therapy sessions and outlines behavioral concepts using straightforward terms and examples so that all therapists can see the utility and practical value of this approach. This book will provide essential guidance for students and new therapists, as well as more experienced clinicians wanting to know more about what makes behavioral activation a distinct form of cognitive behavior therapy.
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.
Preliminaries To Speech Analysis
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Author : Roman Jakobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Preliminaries To Speech Analysis written by Roman Jakobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Speech categories.