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contrastive hierarchy: a standalone construct

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Phonology

proposal that phonological features are assigned by ordered divisions of an inventory, and only contrastive features are active in the phonology.

In phonology, contrastive hierarchy refers to proposal that phonological features are assigned by ordered divisions of an inventory, and only contrastive features are active in the phonology. This meaning comes from Dresher (2009) in The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology.[1]

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hierarchy4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs inventory1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Dresher, B. E. (2009). The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511642005

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