Categorization and features
Evidence from American English /ɹ/
Phonological features allow for formal expression of sound patterns used by speakers of a language. To understand where features come from, it is worth exploring where the patterns themselves come from. In this paper, we argue that the retroflex (tongue tip up) or bunched (tongue tip down) articulation of American English /ɹ/ is speaker- and context-dependent. We provide arguments against two overt sources for these patterns, phonological patterns and perception, as well as against their being purely the result of physiology. The conclusion we come to is that these patterns are spontaneously created by the speakers in order to provide order to their articulations of the sound /ɹ/. We conjecture that if patterns arise spontaneously, so too might features.
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Archangeli, Diana, Jonathan Yip, Lang Qin & Albert Lee
2017.
Phonological and phonetic properties of nasal substitution in Sasak and Javanese.
Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 8:1
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Miller, Amanda L.
2016.
Posterior lingual gestures and tongue shape in Mangetti Dune !Xung clicks.
Journal of Phonetics 55
► pp. 119 ff.
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Archangeli, Diana & Douglas Pulleyblank
2015.
Phonology without universal grammar.
Frontiers in Psychology 6
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