LING 3007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dative Case, Cusco Quechua, English Language In England
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These represent the features of coronal, dorsal and labial. These are 3 major areas of the mouth used to describe place of articulation. The coronal involves the middle or top of the mouth. The dorsal is the back of the mouth, while the labial involves the lips or front of the mouth. While used to describe natural classes and in rules, these are not binary features, and a sound cannot be, for example, [-cor]. /z, s, , , , , d, , l, n/ [+/- high] i u [+high] e o [-high] a. [-high] (mid and low) (-low) (mid and high) carve up with 2 binary features this overpredicts [+high, +low] [-ant, -cont, -sib] -> [-ant]/ _[-con, -front, -back] Yakut (p 161) pl tar ler (after laterals) tor (after voiceless) dar (after voiced) nor ner nar (after nasals) dat ka ke ge xo ga. A a (elsewhere) u e (front goes with front) e i: (o->o, back mid)