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Rossi, Mario – Linguistique, 1977
An analysis of the theory of distinctive features advanced by Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant and Morris Halle in "Preliminaries to Speech Analysis." The notion of binarism, the criterion of distinctiveness and the definition of features are discussed. Questions leading to further research are raised. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1972
This book seeks to point out the difficulties which remain in phonetic theory because of a legacy from prephonemic days when phonetics and phonemics were one. Sounds were shown to have been chosen for description because of their use in speech rather than because of their articulatory or acoustic nature; many sounds were ignored because they were…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech)
