Distinctive Features - Phonology

exam 2 containing: stops, fricatives, affricates, liquids, nasals, glides, front vowels, back vowels, and central vowels

Sonorant (7)

Glides, Liquid and nasals

/m/ /w/ /n/ /l/ /r/ /ŋ/ /j/

Obstruent

Stops, Fricatives, Affricates

/p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ /f/ /v/ /s/ /z/ /θ/ /ð/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /ʧ/ /ʤ/ /h/

Consonantal

All are consonantal

Vocalic (2)

liquids are both

/l/ and /r/

Interrupted (8)

Stops and the Affricates (because the affricate is part stop)

/p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ and /ʧ/ /ʤ/

Continuant (13)

glides, liquids, some of the fricatives

/j/ /w/ /l/ /r/ /h/ /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/

Voice

half stops, half the fricatives, half the affricates the glides, liquids, and nasals

/j/ /w/ /l/ /r/ /n/ /m/ and /ŋ/

/d/ /g/ /b/, /v/ /z/ /ð/ /ʒ/, /ʤ/

Nasal

/n/ /m/ /ŋ/

Strident

/f/ /v/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /ʧ/ /ʤ/

Labial

/p/ /b/ /m/ /w/ /f/ /v/ /r/ /j/

Coronal

all the ones that are alveolar and palatal or labio-dental

/t/ /d/ /s/ /z/ /l/ /r/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /ʧ/ /ʤ/ /j/ /θ/ /ð/

Back

two stops, one nasal

/k/ /g/ and /ŋ/

Anterior

all except palatal or velar

/p/ b/ /t/ /d/ /f/ /v/ /θ/ /ð/ /s/ /z/ /l/ /w/ /n/

Rounded

only two

/w/ /r/

Lateral

only one

/l/

/h/

only three features

obstruent, consonantal, and continuous