The Emergence of Distinctive Features Book

List of figures and tables

1 Natural classes and distinctive features in phonology 1

2 Phonetic and psycholinguistic evidence 36

3 Survey methods 47

4 Ambivalent segments 56

5 Emergent feature theory 78

6 General survey results 114

7 Survey results in terms of feature theories 147

8 The emergence of linguistic structure 173

App. A Languages in the survey 199

App. B Detailed survey results 214

App. C Detailed phonetic similarity results 227

References 231

Index 265