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Topic-202: Distinctive Features



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Topic-202: Distinctive Features

There are many other areas which maybe explored. The distinctive features, for example, can be studied as the part of the phonetic studies of sounds (in applied phonology. Such a study would discover facts about the features of English pronunciation (and, of course, about the sounds of other languages. While working on this aspect of sound systems, the phonological analysis (theoretical) may include the Copyright Virtual University of Pakistan

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description of phoneme as a combination of different features (e.g., d as a phoneme and its features – alveolar, stop, voiced, oral and central) in a binary (+ -) order which is an important component of phonology. Moreover, the feature analysis may also include aspects of the target language as the part of
ELT (English Language Teaching learning point of view. Remember that we need to include three principles for feature analysis contrastive function (how it is different, descriptive function (what it is) and classificatory function (based on broader classes of sounds. Features may also be studied further as apart of language universals and then their role as language specific subsets.

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