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An evolutionary perspective on stop inventories
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Jason Brown
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December 14, 2006
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.
Published Online: 2006-12-14
Published in Print: 2006-11-01
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