LIN229H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sonorant, Vocal Tract, Sibilant

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Similar sounds form natural classes; all segments within a natural class sharea feature. Produced with a vocal tract configuration in which spontaneous voicing is possible. Produced by a major obstruction in the oral cavity. We need both [high] and [low] because there are more than 2 vowel heights. [-back] = front, central vowels: vowel harmony: in many langs, root vowels can only be followed by certain suffix vowels, ex. Finnish: suffix vowels have the same value of the feature [back] as the root vowels. Make everything syllabic sound backed; represents all vowels. Keep your rule as general and simple as possible. One class, but often require further distinguishing: These features distinguish among obstruents, and between nasal, lateral and other sounds. [ continuant] the articulator does not completely obstruct air flow. Nasal vowels co-occur with nasal sounds, except for stops. Has a central obstruction in the oral cavity, airflow is split into 2 parts. Among these, [f] and [v] are [-sibilant]

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