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Chapter 4
Features theory
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Language - English
Undergraduate 4
10/22/2016

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Term
Vowel Nasalization
Definition
[+syllabic]->[+nasal]/_[+nasal]

ex: pom= [-syllabic, -sonorant, +stop, -nasal, +labial, -voice]
[+syllabic, +sonorant, -stop, -nasal, +low, +back, -round]
[-syllabic, +sonorant, +stop, +nasal, +nasal, +labial, +voice]
Term
Sonority Hierachy
Definition
The way the manner features is based loosely on the acoustic sonority (loudness)of sounds.

greater sonority less sonority
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vowels glides liquids nasals obstuents
Term
+syllabic
Definition
vowels are syllabic
Term
+consonantal
Definition
liquids, nasals, obstruents
Term
+approximant
Definition
vowels, glides, liquids
Term
+sonorants
Definition
vowels, glides, liquids, nasals
Term
continuant
Definition
Predicts an affinity between true stops and nasals.
-Fricatives,liquids, glides, and vowels
Term
Delayed Release
Definition
Distinguishes affricates from stops.
-Affricates and fricatives are delayed release
Term
Backness in vowels
Definition
Front and central vowels are -back
Central and back vowels are +back
Term
Height
Definition
low and mid are -high
Term
Tense and Lax
Definition
Lax vowels tend to be shorter and more centralized
Tense vowels tend to diphthongize toward a higher vowel: bayed [beid]
Term
Advanced Tongue Root
Definition
involved in vowel harmony systems-roughly, all the vowels in a particular word must be either [+ATR] or [-ATR]
Term
+labial
Definition
articulated with the lips
Term
+coronal
Definition
articulated with the tongue blade and/or tip
Term
+dorsal
Definition
articulated with the tongue body
Term
complex segments
Definition
most consonants are made with just one articulator, so it would get the value + or -. But complex segments have two articulators involved
ex: [kp] involves both lips and tongue body, and thus is [+labial, +dorsal]
Term
+Anterior
Definition
[+anterior] cornonals are articulated at the alveolar ridge or farther forward
-inter dentals and alveolars
Term
-anterior
Definition
[-anterior] coronals are articulated behind the alveolar ridge; palato-alveolars and retroflexes
Term
+distributed
Definition
=blade =contact is long, measured front to back
-laminals are +distributed
-dentals and palato-alveolars
Term
-distributed
Definition
=tip =contact is short, measured front to back
apicals are -distributed
alveolars and retroflexes are apical
Term
+strident
Definition
-[+strident]; the airstream is channeled through a groove in the tongue blade and blown at the teeth.
sibilants are +strident
-[s,z,ts,dz,S,3,tS,d3]
only coronal fricatives and affricates
Term
+lateral
Definition
distinguishes /l/ from other coronal liquids, and alveolar lateral fricatives from other coronal fricatives
Term
[round]
Definition
articulated by rounding the lips
Term
[labiodental]
Definition
articulated by touching the lower lip to the upper teeth
Term
fronted velars
Definition
[+high,-low,+front,-back] like [i] and [y]
Term
Central velars
Definition
[+high, -low,-front,-back] like[i with a line] and [u with a line]
Term
back velars
Definition
[+high,-low,-front,+back] like [u] and[upside down m]
Term
Uvulars
Definition
[-high,-low,-front,+back] like [unround mid back vowel] and [o]
Term
Pharyngeals
Definition
[-high,+low,-front,+back]
Term
[voice]
Definition
can be defined articulatorily as involving vocal cord vibration and acoustically as involving the characteristic periodic waveform that results from this vibration.
Term
[+spread glottis]
Definition
means that the vocal cords riding on the arytenoid cartilages have been placed relatively far apart, producting a wide glottis.
-[h], breathy vowels, and aspirated consonants, generally -voice
Term
+constructed glottis
Definition
involves adduction of the vocal cords to make a narrow or closed glottis
includes glottal stop, ejectives, pregottalized sounds like allophone of [t]
Term
+implosive
Definition
sounds involve a special articulatory gesture in which the larynx is lowered, creating a temporary partial vacuum
Term
pregottalization
Definition
a voiceless stop is realized as pregottalized when in final position
ex: cap
Term
Aspiration
Definition
voiceless stops are aspirated when they precede a stressed vowel and are not preceded by/s/
Term
neutralization
Definition
the identical phonetic realization of distinct phonemic forms
Term
voicing assimilation
Definition
an obstruent in word-final position takes on the same voicing as a preceding obstruent
Term
near-neutralization
Definition
occurs when the rules map distinct underlying forms into surface form that are distinct but just barely so
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