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Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features
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Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features establishes a new set of parameters for use in phonological studies of language . Arthur Brakel finds the exciting well-known approaches to phonological description overly elaborate but at the same time inadequate for enumerating and analyzing the many sounds linguists know occur. In their place, he proposes a new set of nineteen articulatory primes based on a priori semiotic principles that establish a distinctive value or markedness of a particular sound quality or articulatory gesture . He bolsters his new theory by testing the primes with examples from the phonemes of twenty-three largely unrelated languages.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page
  2. pp. i-ii
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
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  1. Half-Title Page
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  1. 1. On the Phonetic Bases of Phonology
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  1. 2. Semiotic Foundations for Distinctive Features
  2. pp. 10-20
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  1. 3. Distinctive Features Revisited: Towards a Stronger Theory of Phonology
  2. pp. 21-48
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  1. 4. Acoustic D.F.'S And The new Postulates
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  1. 5. Segmental Strength, Hierarchies, And Phonological Primes
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  1. Appendix A. The Specificatory Adequacy of the Revised Distinctive Features
  2. pp. 67-106
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  1. Epilogue To Appendix A: The Non-Universality Of Thephonetic Parameters
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  1. Appendix B. Revised, SPE, And PSA Specifications of The Representative Segmental Inventory
  2. pp. 109-117
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  1. Appendix C. Articulatory Definitions of the Distinctive Features
  2. pp. 118-119
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  1. Appendix D. A Phonetic Key
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  1. Works Consulted
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  1. Index
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ISBN
9780253054296
MARC Record
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OCLC
1259584129
Launched on MUSE
2021-07-11
Language
English
Open Access
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