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- Title
Kinship, optimality, and typology.
- Authors
Musgrave, Simon; Dowe, David L.
- Abstract
Jones uses a mechanism from the linguistic theory, Optimality Theory, to generate the range of kin systems observed in human cultures and human languages. The observed distribution of kinship systems across human societies suggests that some possibilities are preferred over others, a result that would indicate Jones' model needs to be refined, especially in its treatment of markedness.
- Subjects
KINSHIP terminology; OPTIMALITY theory (Linguistics); LINGUISTIC typology; LANGUAGE &; culture; MATHEMATICAL models; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 5, p397
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X10002013