{"id":476,"date":"2025-06-18T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomsofsound.org\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:02:45","slug":"noncoronal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomsofsound.org\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Noncoronal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[noncoronal]<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Counterpart<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

[coronal]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Feature System<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SPE <\/em>Features<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Definition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The feature [noncoronal] is used to describe sounds that are \u201cproduced with the blade of the tongue in the neutral position\u201d (Chomsky & Halle 1968:304). Sounds produced with the tongue dorsum, rather than the tongue front (i.e., velars and uvulars), are also considered to be [noncoronal] (Hall 1997:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purpose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The feature [noncoronal] creates the natural class of labials and velars (Hall 1997:4-5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jakobson and Lotz (1949) proposed the opposition [grave<\/a>] vs. [acute<\/a>]. The feature [grave] was characterized by the \u201cpre-dominance in the lower formant, with a feebleness or a complete lack of higher components in the spectrum\u2026[and] is due to an undivided and more extensive buccal resonator with contracted pharyngeal and labial orifices\u201d (Jakobson & Lotz 1949:429). Later, Jakobson, Fant, & Halle (1952) describe the articulation of [grave] as being \u201cgenerated by a larger and less comparted mouth cavity\u201d (Jakobson et al. 1952:30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When [grave]\/[acute] is replaced by [coronal<\/a>]\/[noncoronal] by Chomsky and Halle (1968), they characterize [noncoronal] sounds as being \u201cproduced with the blade of the tongue in the neutral position\u201d (Chomsky & Halle 1968:304).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sagey (1986) argues that, in feature geometry, [coronal] falls under the articulator (place) node as one of three main features, with dependents of [anterior<\/strong>] and [distributed<\/strong>]. The feature [coronal] is now widely considered a privative feature. \u201cIn order to capture the natural class of labials and velars (i.e., the noncoronals) [Hall claims] that [labial] and [dorsal] are dominated by the privative feature [peripheral]\u201d (Hall 1997:22). The general abolition of [noncoronal] is due to the evidence that any class of [noncoronal]\/[-coronal] can be accounted for using other explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chomsky, Noam; and Morris Halle. 1968. The sound pattern of English<\/em>. New York: Harper and Row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall, T. Alan. 1997. Phonology of Coronals<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jakobson, Roman; and John Lotz. 1949. Notes on the French phonemic pattern. Word<\/em> 5.151-158. Reprinted in 1962 in Selected writings: Vol. 1: Phonological studies<\/em>, ed. by Roman Jakobson, 426-434. \u2019S-Gravenhage: Mouton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jakobson, Roman; Gunnar Fant; and Morris Halle. 1952. Preliminaries to speech analysis: The distinctive features and their correlates.<\/em> (MIT Acoustic Laboratory Technical Report 13). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sagey, Elizabeth. 1986. The representation of features and relations in nonlinear phonology<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation. Published in 1991 by Garland Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hall, T. A. 2011. Coronals. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology<\/em>, vol. 1. General issues and segmental phonology, ed. by Marc van Oostendorp et al., [1-287]. Malden, MA: Blackwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ainsley Graf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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