ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Markedness, Cognitive Grammar, Rhotic Consonant
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Sounds can be analysed in different ways, though linguists generally try to use ones that are cognitively real, such as distinctive features and markedness. The most major class features are [sonorant], [consonantal], and [approximant]. [sonorant]: primarily vocal fold vibration, sounds produced with the vocal tract open enough that air can flow through freely without obstruction at any point: vowels, glides, nasals, laterals and rhotics. [consonantal]: significant obstruction somewhere(even when vocal tract is open): everything except vowels and glides. With these three features, most classes of sounds can be defined: Other features define the manners of consonants, about the kind or type of articulation. [continuant]: a continuous airflow in the oral cavity: fricatives, vowels, glides, rhotics. [strident]: relatively noisy sounds: [f, v, s, z, , , pf, t s, dz, t , d ] [lateral]: side of the tongue lowered while tip remains in contact with the roof of the mouth: all forms of
