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Articulatory Constraints on Distinctive Features

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In its search for generalization on the behavior of speech sounds, phonology needs to be aware of and to explain the interactions between distinctive features. This chapter presents some interactions between features in the articulatory domain covering two general phenomena: emergent stops and consequences of the aerodynamic voicing constraint.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    John J. Ohala

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    Gerard Chollet PhD

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    Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto PhD

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Ohala, J.J. (1999). Articulatory Constraints on Distinctive Features. In: Chollet, G., Di Benedetto, M.G., Esposito, A., Marinaro, M. (eds) Speech Processing, Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0845-0_1

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