LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kodak, Nasal Consonant, Distinctive Feature
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Vowel becomes nasalized before a nasal consonant: assimilation. Class of sound that pattern together: vowel become nasal before nasal. Sounds that share one or more distinct feature. Features that cause contrast in meaning if you switch one for the other. Some are distinctive and some are not depending on the language: aspiration is it distinctive in english: In hindi does cause a difference in meaning thus aspiration is a distinctive feature. Those distinctive feature can describe all human language. Can be used to capture the natural language of sound. [p] is a voiceless bilabial stop: voiceless= [- voice, stop= [-continuant, consonant= [+ consonantal, [-sonorant]= obstruent sound are not sonorant, pronounce in the front part of mouth= [+ anterior, combination of those features make up a sound. Helpful when we want to capture the phenomenon called assimilation using those features. [-nasal] became [+nasal] because its next to this feature that"s [+nasal: assimilation.
