ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of the ways in which researchers working within the paradigm of generative phonology have attempted to address these problems. It draws our attention to developments in the number and description of features. To account for these feature hierarchies, several unary place features are now found in current versions of distinctive feature theory, each having one or more binary subfeatures. Using the changes to feature systems described in this chapter, draw up distinctive feature matrices for the part systems of the following languages. The chapter illustrates some of the strengths of the feature geometry approach through consideration of some clinical data. It starts with an example, that describes the use of feature geometry to show how the is decoupled from the segment. The chapter starts with a simple five-vowel system, /i, e, a, o, u/, and examines the use of vowel-specific features.
