Features who?
I'm the feature that aspirated sounds have.
Spread glottis
Shawty had them pharyngeal and glottal consonants, vowels like [u]s, the whole distinctive feature was lookin' at ________
inspired by Flo Rida
+low
And maybe we got lost in sonority scale
Maybe I asked for too much
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you're the only one +syllabic
Vowels
syllabic consonants
I know they say I have higher amplitude
than neighboring sounds
+syllabic
How I wish, how I wish you were a_____
We were the only [l] sounds swimming in a fishbowl (i.e., distinctive feature chart).
inspired by Pink Floyd
Lateral
Hey, I just met you!
This is crazy
But here is my place of articulation (palato-alveolar)
So, call all my features maybe?
+coronal
-anterior
+distributed
We were all+labial when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standin' there with all the+syllabic ones
On an articulatory airwave
u ʊ o ɒ ɔ y ø œ ʏ ɶ
You like my hair? [G]ee, thanks, just bought it (all the + features)
+cons
+back
+voice
Automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, funky fresh Glottalised, ejective, and implosive sounds are _____
Constricted glottis
Thank you ne[X]t
(all + features)
+cons
+high
+back
+cont
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be +high -low, all there's left to do is +ATR
You'll be the prince and I'll be the -labial
It's a love story, baby, just say, ___
i
One taught me +consonantal
One taught me +sonorant
And one taught me +contuniant
Now, I'm so amazing
liquids
Vowels, liquids, glides, and fricatives are ____ but oral stops, affricates, and nasals are ___
+continuant, -continuant
p --> f
+cont
+strident
I knew you were trouble when you delayed release
affricates
k → s
+cor
+ant
-high
-back
+strd
+cont
If Ryan Gosling is the blade runner, we are the sounds produced with the blade of the tongue.
+coronal
t → ŋ
+son
+voice
+nasal
+high
+back
- ant
-cor
And I chose you
The one with +back, -labial
With +syllabic and +sonorant , no ATR
Looked up at the sky and it was
ə
[+cont] → [-ant] / ___ [+cor,+voice]