ABSTRACT
This chapter examins the SPE feature system described by Chomsky and Halle. It illustrates the concept of distinctive features through the set of features proposed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their book The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). This chapter assumes the formulation for major class features. It is listed here, as the noisiness of the airflow is deemed to be part of the sound source. SPE's cavity features are mainly to do with what would traditionally be termed place of articulation. Draw up distinctive feature matrices for the systems and part systems of the following languages: Hindi Part of the consonant system Turkish Russian Distinctive Features and Clinical Data Distinctive features have also been used in the analysis of disordered speech. Early versions of distinctive feature theory are explored in and, and the version described in this chapter.
