Explanations for Language Universals

Brian Butterworth

ISBN 10: 3110097974 / ISBN 13: 9783110097979

Published by De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Jul 1984, 1984

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Neuware -Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Constraints on gaps: is the parser a significant influence / Fodor, Janet Dean -- On the generality of the nested-dependency constraint and the reason for an exception in Dutch / Steedman, Mark -- Form and substance in language universels / Hyman, Larry M. -- Form and function in explaining language universale / Comrie, Bernard -- Temporal distance: remoteness distinctions in tense-aspect systems / Dahl, Östen -- The verbs of perception: a typological study / Viberg, Åke -- Conceptual and semantic change in scientists and children: why there are no semantic universals / Gopnik, Alison -- Self-organizing processes and the explanation of phonological universals / Lindblom, Björn / Macneilage, Peter / Studdert-Kennedy, Michael -- Natural auditory sensitivities as universal determiners of phonemic contrasts / Howell, Peter / Rosen, Stuart -- Some physiological and perceptual constraints on tonal systems / Collier, R. -- Principles and parameters in prosodic phonology / Booij, Geert E. -- Name index -- Subject index -- Language and language-group indexWalter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 300 pp. Englisch.

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• Title: Explanations for Language Universals
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Jul 1984
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110097974
• ISBN 13: 9783110097979
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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