Duanmu, San
University of Michigan
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926759-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926759-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0002
2 Features, sounds, complex sounds, and the No Contour Principle
This chapter reviews feature theory and discusses what speech sounds are and their representation in features and articulators. The focus is on possible and impossible complex sounds, which is determined by the No Contour Principle.
Keywords: speech sound, articulators, features, complex sounds, No Contour Principle, underspecification
Keywords: speech sound, articulators, features, complex sounds, No Contour Principle, underspecification
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0002
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