Marginal contrasts and the Contrastivist Hypothesis
The Contrastivist Hypothesis (CH; Hall 2007; Dresher 2009) holds that the only features that can be phonologically active in any language are those that serve to distinguish phonemes, which presupposes that phonemic status is categorical. Many researchers, however, demonstrate the existence of gradi...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/245 |