phonological feature

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The non-autonomous phonological features that we have demonstrated suggest that the process has yet to be completed.
The authors interpreted their findings as suggesting that children who misarticulate phonemes have internal representations for these phonemes that lack critical distinguishing phonological features.
This is evidenced by the fact that phonological features can be pinpointed to some inputs but not to others.
Such phonetic exponency of these phonological features is unlikely to be universally applicable.
Such claims certainly suggest that at least some phonological features have no relevance to phonetics.
However, there are a few occasions where a different view of phonological features is entertained.
It could also be possible to concentrate on the phonological features.
In minimalist approaches to syntax, the lexicon marks for each element its phonological features, its semantic features and its formal features.
First, there is an oppositional pair of phonological features in which one of the pair has a consistently strong effect on the sound change.
The parallel between the innately provided maximum number of, say, vowel distinctions and an innate set of phonological features that can define vowels is obvious.
The authors further argue that the voicing distinction can be acquired on the basis of acoustic differences rather than phonological features.
Within the context of this study, the phonological features seemed to have played a significant role in assigning dialect status and identifying the toddler's race.
This process is especially likely to occur if the two words share phonological features.
Two recent studies are especially relevant to our understanding of children's conceptual knowledge of distinctive phonological features.
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