LING 3007 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sonorant, Phoneme, Continuant

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A binary feature is a phonological feature for which phonemes may be specified positively or negatively. For example, this includes natural classes such as +/- nasal, sonorant, voice, etc. Natural class are specified through one or more binary features. For example, voiceless stops can be defined as [+continuant, -voice]. In order to be a binary feature, a feature must be able to be describes as +/-, or not there, where - that feature can be targeted by phonological rules. Binary features are used in phonological rules to define the phonemes that are affected by a rule, the environment it will occur, and often the process that the phoneme will undergo.

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