单词 | distinctive-feature |
释义 | > as lemmasdistinctive-feature b. Applied spec. in Linguistics to a phonetic feature that is capable of distinguishing one meaning from another. Also distinctive-feature, applied attributively to a theory or system propounded by R. Jakobson of classifying linguistic elements in terms of their distinctive phonetic features. ΚΠ 1927 L. Bloomfield & G. M. Bolling in Language 3 129 Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. v. 77 Part of the gross acoustic features are indifferent (non-distinctive), and only a part are connected with meanings and essential to communication (distinctive)... A feature that is distinctive in one language, may be non-distinctive in another language. 1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. 38 Divide all phonetic differences observable in the language into two kinds: distinctive differences or contracts, capable of distinguishing one meaning from another; and nondistinctive differences, never used for this purpose. 1952 R. Jakobson et al. Prelim. Speech Anal. 3 The distinctive features are the ultimate distinctive entities of language since no one of them can be broken down into smaller linguistic units. The distinctive features combined into one simultaneous bundle form a phoneme. 1964 Language 40 221 A problem wide open for experimentation is the psycholinguistic validation of ‘distinctive-feature analysis’. 1965 Language 41 168 A positional and articulatory distinctive-feature description has been more thoroughly exploited than any other in analyzing clusters. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 55 Jakobsonian distinctive-feature theory. 1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 64 We take ‘distinctive features’ to be the minimal elements of which phonetic, lexical, and phonological transcriptions are composed. < as lemmas |
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