An evolutionary perspective on stop inventories
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: 1. Introduction Evolutionary Phonology attempts to explain the sound patterns that are recurrent in the world's languages, including the distributions of sounds within segment inventories. Perhaps one of the strongest arguments made by Evolutionary Phonology concerns the nature of explanation.
Source: Theoretical Linguistics
DOI: 10.1515/tl.2006.011
Author: Jason Brown
Institution: University of British Columbia
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1996569716