24.941J | Spring 2007 | Graduate

The Lexicon and Its Features

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Distinctive features that define the word ‘back’ in English. This course is concerned with the theoretical motivation, definition and acoustic/articulatory realization of such distinctive features in spoken language. (Figure by MIT OpenCourseWare, after Stevens.)

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Articulator free and articulator bound elements of the English word 'back.'
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Distinctive features that define the word ‘back’ in English. This course is concerned with the theoretical motivation, definition and acoustic/articulatory realization of such distinctive features in spoken language. (Figure by MIT OpenCourseWare, after Stevens.)
Articulator free and articulator bound elements of the English word 'back.'