Timeline for Why are consonants distinguished differently than vowels?
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| Jan 31, 2019 at 23:33 | comment | added | Mitch | It's a lot like why fluids are described differently from solids. Within each set of phenomena, there are similarities along continua. But between solids and fluids, there is very little to compare. The kinds of closure (tongue touching or near touching of the mouth) are different from the kinds of tongue positions in mouth openings. Consider that all the phonetic phenomena come first, and then our descrption of them follows. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 15:13 | answer | added | macleginn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:48 | comment | added | melissa_boiko | I think you can use traditionally consonantal descriptors to qualify vowels and vice-versa. I had a lot of trouble understanding what's a [ç] (not a native phone for me) until I read somewhere (I think Ladefoged) that [ç] is equivalent to a consonantal description of a (voiceless) [i] (like a [h] with tongue in [i] position)—which is why it's a common allophone of [h] before [i]. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 22:14 | answer | added | Eleshar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 15:47 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 15:17 | answer | added | Greg Lee | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 15, 2013 at 19:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/312649504971177984 | ||
| Mar 13, 2013 at 14:50 | answer | added | musicallinguist | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 14:48 | history | edited | musicallinguist |
Added a _phonology_ tag and removed the _ipa_ tag. Distinctive features are in the domain of phonology, and IPA is a transcription system independent of the feature set used in phonological analysis
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| Mar 12, 2013 at 19:47 | answer | added | jlawler | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 12, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | Danger Fourpence | If we had some sort of universal description, we wouldn't be able to cover all our bases and not describe vowels/consonants fully. We can describe a voiceless labio-dental fricative, for example, as an "f", but that's not a very scientific description. | |
| Mar 12, 2013 at 18:36 | answer | added | Otavio Macedo | timeline score: 15 | |
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| Mar 12, 2013 at 15:55 | history | asked | AnasUrba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |