ABSTRACT
OtherdiscreteeffectswithintheSwedishvowelsystemisthediphthongal gestmewithextremearticulatorynarrowing,towardsahomorganicconso· nant,i.e.,[i:-+j],[u:-+P].
Afundamentalconceptindistinctivefeaturetheory,asoutlinedbyJakobson etal.(1952),isthatofrelationalinvariance.Thecriticalscalevalueofa parameteratwhichafeatureshiftsfromplustominusisconditionedbythe specificcontextofpreceding,present,andfollowingfeatureswithinanarea ofthedistinctivefeaturematrixand,ofcourse,byprosodic,individual,and
