Distinctive features are the smallest units of sound that differentiate meaning between words in a language, serving as the building blocks of phonemes. They help linguists analyze and describe the phonetic and phonological properties of speech sounds, facilitating the understanding of how languages encode meaning through sound variations.

Distinctive Features

Distinctive features

smallest units of sound

differentiate meaning

building blocks of phonemes

linguists analyze

Phonetic properties

phonological properties

Speech sounds are the building blocks of spoken language, represented by phonemes which are distinct units of sound differentiating words from each other. Understanding speech sounds involves analyzing how they are produced, perceived, and their role in phonological structures across languages.

speech sounds

Understanding of languages

encode meaning

sound variations

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