| 单词 | distinctive feature |
| 释义 | distinctive featureSEE SYNONYMS FOR distinctive feature ON THESAURUS.COM noun Linguistics.a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p. any of a set of phonetic properties, as coronal, nasal, or strident, serving as a basic unit of phonological analysis by which the sounds that are significant in a language can be characterized and distinguished from one another. a component or phonetic feature characterizing a phoneme. Origin of distinctive featureFirst recorded in 1925–30 Words nearby distinctive featuredistillery, distillment, distinct, distinction, distinctive, distinctive feature, distinctiveness ratio, distinctly, distingué, distinguée, distinguish Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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