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In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For example, the feature [+ voice ] distinguishes the two bilabial plosives : [p] and [b] (i.e., it makes the two plosives distinct from one another).
Examples of phonemic or distinctive features are: [+/- voice], [+/- ATR] (binary features) and [ CORONAL] (a unary feature; also a place feature). Surface representations can be expressed as the result of rules acting on the features of the underlying representation .
The latter example shows one of the most distinctive features of AAVE: the use of be to indicate that performance of the verb is of a habitual nature. In most other American English dialects, this can only be expressed unambiguously by using adverbs such as usually .
Capote had a distinctive voice that played a part on in his larger-than-life personality. Jack Mitchell - Getty Images To master Capote's tone, Hollander worked with famed dialect coach Jerome Butler.
Examples of words where vowel reduction seems to be distinctive for some speakers [78] include chickaree vs. chicory (the latter has the reduced vowel of HAPPY, whereas the former has the FLEECE vowel without reduction), and Pharaoh vs. farrow (both have the GOAT vowel, but in the latter word it may reduce to [ɵ]).
The most distinctive Inland Northern accents are spoken in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. [3] The dialect can be heard as far east as Upstate New York and as far west as eastern Iowa and even among certain demographics in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. [4]
Of course, the producers had to find a performer gifted enough to channel Angela's distinctive voice in convincing fashion. In the ’90s, "There was no teenager ever playing a teenager on ...
Classes are defined by distinctive features having reference to articulatory and acoustic phonetic properties, [2] including manners of articulation, places of articulation, voicing, and continuance. For example, the set containing the sounds /p/ , /t/ , and /k/ is a natural class of voiceless stops in American Standard English.