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Distinctive features

Reading: C&Y Chapter 10.

Tasks:

  1. Search the web for domain-specific feature types:
    1. Articulatory
    2. Acoustic
    3. Perceptual
  2. Search the web for definitions and examples of phonological (distinctive) features.
  3. Discuss the questions:
    1. Are features universal?
    2. Are features abstract or concrete?
    3. Why are features organised with "+" and "-" specifications?
  4. Summarise the main aspects of feature geometry.


Dafydd Gibbon, Mon Jul 21 10:30:46 MEST 2003 Automatically generated, links may change - update every session.