In linguistics, distinctive features are the descriptive quality by which sounds are distinguished from one another. Distinctive features can be phonetic correlations of the sound in question or may be an auditory or even an acoustic quality of a vocal sound. Distinctive features are descriptive tools through which individual sounds can be described. The use of distinctive features is common in theories of generative phonology and it have been adjudged as adequate in its function of differentiating speech sounds. Some example of distinctive features are coronal(sounds produced while the front or blade of the tongue is raised towards the roof of the mouth), anterior (sounds produced outside the palato-aveolar region e.g labials, aveolars, labio-dentals). Jump to: navigation, search Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Jump to: navigation, search A schematic representation of hearing. ... Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech), is a subfield of linguistics closely associated with phonetics. ... One might be looking for the academic discipline of communications. ... (Linguistics) Coronals refer to Coronal consonants. ... In zootomy, several terms are used to describe the location of organs and other structures in the body of bilateral animals. ... Labials are consonants articulated either with both lips (bilabial articulation) or with the lower lip and the upper teeth (labiodental articulation). ...
In linguistics, distinctivefeatures are the elements which distinguish one phoneme or allophone from one another.
One is the manner of articulation, such as whether the flow of air is stopped (a stop consonant), passes through the nose (a nasalconsonant), is made turbulent (a fricative), or is barely affected at all (an approximant).
In such conceptions, a high vowel may be said to have a feature height but not low ("+high, −low"), a low vowel the feature low but not height ("−high, +low"), and a mid vowel neither ("−high, −low"), with the combination "+high, +low" not being considered sensible.
In the analysis of artistic artifacts, features provide the essential descriptive primitives by which the unique characters of individual works may be identified, and by which the commonalities of styles, periods, and genres may be portrayed.
The feature might be isolated from preceding and ensuing material; it might tend to appear at the beginning and ending of the work, or at the beginnings and ends of phrases.
Features may be salient because of intratextual or intertextual treatments--including prevalence, primacy, recency, evocation, quotation, allusion, parody, and model.
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