{"id":4264,"date":"2012-05-12T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4264"},"modified":"2012-05-12T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:55:37","slug":"natural-class","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4264","title":{"rendered":":Natural class:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sounds which are phonetically similar and which occur frequently as the input, output or environment of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1051\">phonological rules<\/a>. The following formal definition for natural class has been proposed: <em>A class of segments which can be specified using fewer <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=508\">features <\/a>than it would take to specify any member or any subset of the class<\/em>. For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=527\">voiceless <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=504\">plosives<\/a> may be specified as [-son, -cont, -delrel, -voi]. A subset such as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>p t<\/strong><\/span> would need a specification which added [+ant]. <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>p<\/strong><\/span> alone would need to add [+ant, -cor] to the specification. An arbitrary collection of segments, such as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>p \u0292 m u<\/strong><\/span> does not have the formal property described above, and moreover, would not be expected to be treated as a class in the phonology of any language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sounds which are phonetically similar and which occur frequently as the input, output or environment of phonological rules. The following formal definition for natural class has been proposed: A class of segments which can be specified using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4264\/revisions\/4271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}