LING-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sonorant, Genderqueer, Free Variation
25 Aug 2016
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Logic of patterns of distribution how to go about solving problems. The different segments we perceive as cohesive units (like sounds or words) are actually bundles of features: the specific articulatory, perceptual, and acoustic elements that create phones and phonemes. One is to find the distinctive feature between two different segments: the feature that indicates a contrastive or phonetic distinction. Another is to identify natural classes: a group of phonemes that share one or more features. We also use features for notation of rules. (more on that later. ) The majority of features are binary features: features with two values that are opposites and form natural classes [+/-] **antonyms aren"t exactly opposite; their exactly alike but with one major difference** same with binary features. [+/- continuant]: whether or not sounds are produced with free or nearly free airflow through the center of the oral cavity.
