Positional characteristics

… Around the time of his 1936 academic journal article “An Attempt at a Theory of Phonological Opposition,” he began to search for a theory that could grasp “opposition,” and this became his theoretical subject in his later years. He focused on the “common features” between terms that indicate sound differences, and these terms include “location features” in addition to “participatory features.” For example, the “l” in “lip” contains a phonetic feature (“laterality”) that opposes the “n,” “t,” and “ch” in “nip,” “tip,” and “chip,” and this feature also opposes the “ll” in “pill” to the “n,” “t,” and “tch” in “pin,” “pit,” and “pitch” (the “participatory feature”). …

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…　1936年に学術誌に発表した論文《音韻対立のための理論の試み》の前後から〈対立〉をとらえる理論を模索し，これが晩年の理論課題となった。そこで彼は音差異を示す項の間の〈共通特性〉に着目するが，この項は“関与特性”のほかに“位置特性”をも含むのである。たとえばlipのlは，nip,tip,chipのn,t,chと対立する音特性(“側音性”)を含み，この特性はpillのllにおいてもそれをpin,pit,pitchのn,t,tchと対立させている(“関与特性”)。…

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