A Distinctive Feature Analysis of Children’s Misarticulations

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leija V. McReynolds ◽  
Kay Huston
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Efficient Approach ◽  
English System ◽  
Phonological Rules ◽  
The Way

The articulation of 10 children with severe misarticulations was subjected to a feature analysis. The 13 distinctive features of English phonology as proposed by Jakobson, Fant, and Halle (1952) and Chomsky and Halle (1968) were used for the study. Phonetic transcriptions of responses on the McDonald Deep Test of Articulation formed the basis for the analysis. Two sets of data were compiled: the children’s feature systems in comparison to the English system and a traditional articulation evaluation of phoneme articulation. Results indicated that children’s feature errors were consistent across phonemes which contained the feature. It was further determined that misarticulations can be only partially described as a function of absence of features. Many of the errors occurred in the way features were used in particular combinations or contexts by the children. Errors resulted when children applied rules for feature usage which were different from the phonological rules in English. It is suggested that a distinctive feature analysis may offer a more efficient approach to articulation training.

The semiotics of movement and mobility

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Theo van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Movement Direction ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Film And Video

The paper presents a framework for the distinctive feature analysis of movement and mobility in texts, performances and semiotic artefacts, showing its applicability to the analysis of meaning-making in dance, music, animated and live action film and video, and product design. Emphasis is placed on the role of movement and mobility in identity design. Identity design is realized by the style in which movements are performed and can be analysed in terms of the gradable distinctive features present in any movement – direction, expansiveness, velocity, force, angularity, fluidity, directedness and regularity. The paper includes a historical dimension, focusing on the development of movement and mobility as semiotic resources, and argues for the pioneering role of modernist artists in this development.

The Modification of Multiple Articulation Errors Based on Distinctive Feature Theory

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonis Costello ◽  
Joanne M. Onstine
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Feature Theory

The effectiveness of articulation remediation procedures based on distinctive feature theory was evaluated through the administration of an articulation program designed for this purpose. Two preschool children with multiple phoneme errors which could be described by a distinctive feature analysis were the subjects. Both children substituted stop phonemes for most continuant phonemes. Each child was individually administered the distinctive feature program which is described in full. Data are presented which indicate the adequacy of. the treatment program, the acquisition of correct articulation of the two directly treated target phonemes, and the concurrent improvement of five other nontreated error phonemes. Such across-phoneme generalization was predicted by distinctive feature theory. Certain modifications in the treatment program are suggested and theoretical/empirical questions regarding articulation remediation from a distinctive features viewpoint are discussed.

Towards a semiotics of typography

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Textual Meaning

This article outlines a social semiotic approach to analysing the ideational, interpersonal and textual meaning potentials of letter forms, drawing on Jakobson’s distinctive feature analysis and Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of experiential metaphor. Distinctive features are recognized and applied to the analysis of examples: weight, expansion, slope, curvature, connectivity, orientation and regularity.

scholarly journals The sound systems of English and Slovene compared: a distinctive feature analysis

Linguistica ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Tatjana Srebot Rejec
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Phonological Representation ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Sound Analysis ◽  
Phonological Rules

This is an attempt  to show how the phonetic properties of sounds are put to work in Slovene and in English. We want to find out the number and the type of di­ stinctive contrasts employed in the two languages and how these contrasts are struc­ tured. We classified the sound systems of the two languages with the same distin­ ctive features as far as this is feasible, while at the same time aiming at a realistic phonetic and  phonological representation of the two sound inventories. Together with the phonological rules of the two languages, which are not worked out in the present article, this analysis can serve as a basis for a contrastive English-Slovene and Slovene-English sound analysis.

A place for lateral in the feature geometry

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Feature Geometry ◽  
Phonological Rules

Phonological models of feature geometry suggest that the internal structure of segments is highly articulated. Distinctive features are organized hierarchically within the segment, and this hierarchical organization is relatively stable across and within languages. Much recent work has been devoted to determining the precise location of place of articulation features within the hierarchy. In this study, the distinctive feature [lateral] is the focus of investigation. Though [lateral] is often considered a manner feature, it is usually associated with coronal articulations. By examining the behaviour of coronal and velar laterals in phonological rules and constraints, evidence emerges that [lateral] is a terminal feature of the coronal node within the feature tree.

General phonological rules and phonetic processes: Russian palatalization assimilation

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Kyril T. Holden
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Individual Features ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Phonological Rules

The kinds of rules found in the phonological components of generative grammars have been traditionally grouped into three types: (1) LEXICAL REDUNDANCY or MORPHEME STRUCTURE rules, which fill in redundant features of systematic phonemes within morphemes; (2) PHONOLOGICAL rules, which operate both within morphemes as well as across morpheme boundaries, and can either add or change features; (3) PHONETIC rules, which supply n-ary values to the binary distinctive feature specifications which are the output of the earlier phonological rules. It has furthermore been assumed that these three subcomponents are strictly ordered with respect to one another. Recent studies, however, have revealed a number of rules which do not conveniently fall into these categories, and still others have been found which contradict the assumed ordering relationship (Vennemann, 1972; Anderson, 1975; Daniels, 1973; Labov, 1972). Many of these rules exhibit articulatory phonetic regularities which are obscured at the level of binary distinctive features. Instead they apply at a level when scalar values have already been assigned to the individual features.

Theorizing Corporate Governance: Organizational Alternatives

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Learmount
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Social Controls ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Way

In this paper I contrast ‘economic’ and ‘organizational’ approaches to corporate governance, in order to draw out some of their distinctive features and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. I identify some promising areas of new research that examine the role of social controls and trust for the way that companies are governed. Although these are fairly embryonic, I argue that they call into question the hegemony of economic theories in theorizing the governance of the corporation. I conclude by advocating a re-consideration and broadening of the current conceptual scope of corporate governance, so as to facilitate and encourage other potentially valuable ways of exploring and understanding how companies are governed.

Routes to Object Constancy: Implications from Neurological Impairments of Object Constancy

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn W. Humphreys ◽  
M. Jane Riddoch
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Principal Axis ◽  
Target Object ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
Size Discrimination ◽  
Form Discrimination ◽  
Object Constancy ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Global Properties ◽  
Feature Information

Previous studies have established the existence of neurological impairments of object constancy: the ability to recognize that an object has the same structure across changes in its retinal projection. Five case studies of brain-damaged patients with deficits in achieving object constancy are reported. To test object constancy, patients discriminated two photographs of a target object, taken from different views, from a photograph of a visually similar distractor object. Four patients showed impaired matching only when the principal axis of the target object in one photograph was foreshortened. The fifth patient showed impaired matching only when the saliency of the target object's primary distinctive feature was reduced. This double dissociation suggests that normally there may be two independent means of achieving object constancy: one by processing an object's local distinctive features, the other by describing the object's structure relative to the frame of its principal axis. Neurological damage can selectively impair either process. Further, this impairment can be independent of deficits in processing visual form, since two patients with a selective deficit in the foreshortened matching task showed relatively normal form discrimination. The patient dependent on local distinctive feature information showed a deficit in size discrimination. It is suggested that this patient fails to utilize global properties of form. This failure may underlie both his impairment in achieving object constancy and in processing certain dimensions of form.

The role of NZ English in a binary feature analysis of English short vowels

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Short Vowels ◽  
Binary Feature ◽  
Acoustic Space ◽  
High Vowels

The Jakobsonian system of binary distinctive features is based on the premise that, as far as vowels are concerned, their articulation, and the resulting acoustic effects, are not distributed randomly over the available articulatory or acoustic space, but are organized into systems of binary contrasts, so that for example (in articulatory terms) a set of front vowels will be matched by a corresponding set of back vowels, a set of high vowels by a set of mid or low vowels, and so on. There will thus be a certain symmetry in the distribution of such vowels, either in their positions on a vowel quadrilateral, or in a similar schematic shape such as the five-vowel triangle.

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