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Distinctive Feature Definitions

The document outlines various phonetic features categorized into Place, Laryngeal, Manner, and Major Class features. It defines specific characteristics of sounds based on their production, such as labial, coronal, and dorsal placements, as well as voicing and manner of articulation. Additionally, it distinguishes between consonants and vowels, highlighting their properties like sonority and syllabic status.

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Distinctive Feature Definitions

The document outlines various phonetic features categorized into Place, Laryngeal, Manner, and Major Class features. It defines specific characteristics of sounds based on their production, such as labial, coronal, and dorsal placements, as well as voicing and manner of articulation. Additionally, it distinguishes between consonants and vowels, highlighting their properties like sonority and syllabic status.

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Place Features

[LABIAL]: sounds produced with the lips


[round]: is a sound produced with rounded lips?
[CORONAL]: sounds produced with the front of the tongue
[strident]: sound produced with high energy at high frequencies
[anterior]: is a sound produced from the alveolar ridge forward?
[DORSAL]: sounds produced with the back of the tongue
[+back]: back vowels + velar consonants
[-back]: front/central vowels + palatal consonants
[high]: is a vowel high?
[low]: is a vowel low?
[tense]: is a vowel tense?
[reduced]: is a vowel reduced? If so, it's [ə].

Laryngeal Features
[voice]: is a sound voiced or not?
[spread glottis]: is a sound aspirated?
[+spread glottis] = [h] + aspirated stops
[constricted glottis]: are the vocal folds constricted in a sound?
[ʔ]

Manner Features
[continuant]: can a sound be produced continuously?
[delayed release]: is a sound an affricate?
[nasal]: is a sound produced with air flowing through the nose?
[lateral]: is a sound produced with the tongue squeezed towards the middle of the mouth?

Major Class Features


[consonantal]: is the sound a consonant or vowel?
[sonorant]: is a sound easy to voice?
"sonorants" include vowels, nasals, glides, liquids
"obstruents" include stops, fricatives, affricates
[syllabic]: is a sound the peak of a syllable?

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