Explanations for Language Universals
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2014
292 pages
978-3-11-086855-5 (ISBN)
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Edition
Reprint 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Zahlr. Abb.
Num. figs.
File size
8,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-086855-5 (9783110868555)
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Brian Butterworth | Bernard Comrie | Östen Dahl
Explanations for Language Universals
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10/2014
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Explanations for Language Universals
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Content
- Intro
- FOREWORD
- Introduction
- Constraints on gaps: is the parser a significant influence?
- On the generality of the nested - dependency constraint and the reason for an exception in Dutch
- Form and substance in language universals
- Form and function in explaining language universals
- Temporal distance: remoteness distinctions in tense - aspect systems
- The verbs of perception: a typological study
- Conceptual and semantic change in scientists and children: why there are no semantic universals
- Self-organizing processes and the explanation of phonological universals
- Natural auditory sensitivities as universal determiners of phonemic contrasts
- Some physiological and perceptual constraints on tonal systems
- Principles and parameters in prosodic phonology
- NAME INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
- LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE-GROUP INDEX
