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Distinctive feature

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 distinguishes the two bilabial plosives: and (i.e., it makes the two plosives distinct from one another). There are many different ways of defining and arranging features into feature…

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Jakobsonian system

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Distinctive feature

Nodes109
Edges108
Triples83
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018349
Components1

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Distinctive feature → Archived, Articulator Theory, Calgary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carlos, Chapter, Chomsky, Clements, Correlates, Darin, Distinctive Features, English, Fant, Flynn, Fundamentals, George, Gunnar, Gussenhoven, Haike
related to Other uses · 18
Distinctive feature → American Sign Language, Analogous, Brown Corpus, Close, Distinctive, For, Modern, Natural Language Processing, NLP, NN, NNS, Noun, Others, Some, Text Encoding Initiative's, The, These, Verb
is a · 1
Distinctive feature → most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language
related to List · 1
Distinctive feature → This

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feature features segments tongue distinctive consonants vowels language tract air sounds produced vocal phonological include jakobson also articulated tense root

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Distinctive featureis amost basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language0.90text
slogansinstance ofDistinctive features have also been used to distinguish proverbs from other types of language0.80text
clichésinstance ofDistinctive features have also been used to distinguish proverbs from other types of language0.80text
and aphorisms.Analogous feature systems are also used throughout Natural Language Processinginstance ofDistinctive features have also been used to distinguish proverbs from other types of language0.80text
Noun vsinstance ofcategories0.80text
personinstance ofbut also other dimensions0.80text
numberinstance ofbut also other dimensions0.80text
pluralityinstance ofbut also other dimensions0.80text
tenseinstance ofbut also other dimensions0.80text
and othersinstance ofbut also other dimensions0.80text
the Text Encoding Initiative's feature structuresinstance ofeven formalizing them via markup0.80text
Distinctive featurerelated to ListThis0.60section

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