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sibling typology: beyond Nerlove and Romney 1
Author(s) -
KRONENFELD DAVID B.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1974.1.3.02a00060
Subject(s) - markedness , typology , set (abstract data type) , mathematical economics , mathematics , linguistics , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , computer science , sociology , history , anthropology , archaeology , programming language
Nerlove and Romney (1967), using assumptions about conjunctivity and markedness, identified a set of necessary conditions which any existent terminological arrangement of true siblings must fulfill. The present paper generalizes and extends their assumptions, explores the psychological bases of these assumptions, and investigates the degree to which these revised assumptions represent a set of conditions such that (given enough cases) any terminological arrangement that meets them should be expected to occur in some natural system.