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10.01.2001, Distinctive features

Tasks:

  1. Prepare a glossary for the terms, based on searches on the web and on the Clark & Yallop textbook:
    1. distinctive feature
    2. redundant feature
    3. phonetic feature
    4. phonetic correlate
    5. acoustic correlate
    6. feature specification
    7. class feature
    8. feature bundle
    9. feature matrix
    10. phonological rule (for rules using distinctive features)
    11. phoneme (with different definitions, based on distribution and similarity; allophones; distinctive features)
  2. Catalogue the distinctive features for
    1. English phonemes, or
    2. German phonemes
    as a distinctive feature matrix.
  3. Prepare distinctive feature matrices (as tables in Word or Excel) for either the English or the German words:
    1. mint, women, tap, splint
    2. müller, flink, tipp, sprint


Dafydd Gibbon, Wed Feb 12 10:50:41 MET 2003 Automatically generated, links may change - update every session.