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The applicability of theories of phonological contrast to kinship systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

Andrew Nevins
Andrew Nevins
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University College London, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, London WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom. a.nevins@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

With the goal of broadening the range of possible extant theories of phonological contrast from which kinship studies can draw, I outline, and briefly apply to the Seneca vs. English kinship systems, three approaches developed for predicting universals and variations of vowel system contrast.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 398 - 399
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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