1. LEXICAL UNIVERSALS.
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Witkowski, Stanley R. and Brown, Cecil H.
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LEXICAL phonology , *LANGUAGE & languages , *GENERATIVE grammar , *ETHNOLOGY , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *COMMUNICATION , *LANGUAGE acquisition , *PHONOLOGICAL awareness , *PHONOLOGY - Abstract
The article examines the role of lexical universals in the theory of the human language faculty. Several distinctions have been found between the knowledge of an individual language and the knowledge of design principles of language. However, various problems have been generated with regards to the degree of the specificity of writing which involves design principles. Furthermore, other factors have also been sought including the distributional patterns in languages, speculations on the development of ranks in folk botanical taxonomies as well as the determination of nomenclature universals for partonomies.
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- 1978
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