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| Sep 22, 2017 at 17:03 | comment | added | macleginn | @user6726, features you are talking about are theory specific. I am talking about features on a more basic, phonetic-descriptive, level (and they are usually called features, as in “IPA feature set”). More involved systems can be built on top of them (or bypassing them), which may gloss over the basic problems of how we can efficiently describe speech sounds on a basic level. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 16:53 | comment | added | user6726 | The problem that I see with your answer is that it predicts that most feature theories would use disjoint features for description of vowels vs. consonants, yet over the past 60 years, the same features have been used, with only a very few exceptions (Steriade's "dorsal" vs. "velar"). "Features" refers to something different from "descriptive properties". The OPs use of the word "methodology" is confusing, since nobody talks of a "methodology" of features | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 15:31 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 15:13 | history | answered | macleginn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |