Explanations for Language Universals

✍ Scribed by Brian Butterworth (editor); Bernard Comrie (editor); Östen Dahl (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Leaves: 300
Edition: Reprint 2014
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

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

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