Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of "Be different" and "Be recognizably language"

Pragmatics and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 341-354

  Childs, G Tucker ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African languages; Constraints; Expressiveness; Ideophones; Lexicon; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911099996     PISSN: 18789714     EISSN: 18789722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ps.5.3.02chi     Document Type: Article

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