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Natural class

In phonology, a natural class is a set of phonemes in a language that share certain distinctive features. A natural class is determined by participation in shared phonological processes, described using the minimum number of features necessary for descriptive adequacy.

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Natural class

Nodes22
Edges21
Triples11
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.090909
Components1

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Natural class

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related to overview · 8
Natural class → American Standard English, Any, Chomsky, Classes, For, Halle, This, To
related to External links · 2
Natural class → Glossary, What
is a · 1
Natural class → set of phonemes in a language that share certain distinctive features

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Important terminology

class voiceless stops features natural continuant voice sounds classes feature set distinctive described voiced fricatives vowels phonology phonemes language phonetic

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Natural classis aset of phonemes in a language that share certain distinctive features0.90text
Natural classrelated to External linksGlossary0.60section
Natural classrelated to External linksWhat0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewClasses0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewFor0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewAmerican Standard English0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewThis0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewTo0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewChomsky0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewHalle0.60section
Natural classrelated to overviewAny0.60section

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