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Feature Economy as a Phonological Universal

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This paper compares two approaches to the study of sound inventories, one phonological and the other phonetic. The first maintains that speech sounds tend to be organized by a principle of feature economy, according to which languages maximize the combinatory possibilities of a few phonological features to generate large numbers of speech sounds. The other holds that sound systems are organized by a principle of maximal dispersion, according to which speech sounds tend to be maximally dispersed in perceptual space. A comparison of these two principles with respect to the UPSID-92 data base of phoneme inventories provides strong support for the first.
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halshs-00182695, version 1 (26-10-2007)

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G.N. Clements. Feature Economy as a Phonological Universal. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 15), 2003, Barcelona, Spain. pp.371-374. ⟨halshs-00182695⟩
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