Distinctive feature

id: distinctive-feature-217-94907
title: Distinctive feature
text: In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For example, the feature [+voice] distinguishes the two bilabial plosives: [p] and [b]. There are many different ways of defining and arranging features into feature systems: some deal with only one language while others are developed to apply to all languages. Distinctive features are grouped into categories according to the natural classes of segme
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description: Basic unit distinguishing one sound from another in a language
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinctive_feature
date created: 2005-07-04T19:34:38Z
date modified: 2024-09-13T01:02:49Z
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