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Download full textFerguson, Charles A. – 1971
The paper presents a set of linguistic phenomena illustrative of the notion "universal tendency". Linguistic generalizations are regarded here not as isolated, "true-or-false" propositions but as embedded in a hierarchy of competing forces. An "exception" to a universal is thus seen as the result of the prevalence of another conflicting universal…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedLocke, John L. – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Phonetic Analysis
Gaitenby, Jane H. – New Outlook Blind, 1969
Paper presented at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (74th, Miami Beach, Florida, November 1967).
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Electronic Equipment, Exceptional Child Research, Input Output Devices
