The binary features of the Albanian sounds segments
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Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to define the phonemic binary features of the Standard Albanian sound segments based on the Chomsky–Halle‘s system elaborated by them in their seminal work "the Sound Pattern of English". Of course, nowadays there are other systems of features in use, but we prefer their system because it is based on the binary principle and is widely used by phoneticians. A previous effort to specify features of the sound of Albanian based on Chomsky–Halle system of features is that of Gary L. Bevington made in his doctoral dissertation "Albanian Phonology" submitted to the Department of Linguistics of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in August 1970 and published 4 years later1. But because of taboos of that time his study went unnoticed by Albanian phoneticians, as it had happened previously with the system of binary acoustic features used in 1954 by E. Hamp in the description of sounds of a Calabro-Albanian dialect2. Only these last years we have introduced binary features instead of Troubetzkoy's and Jakobson's acoustic features in our published textbooks, as well in an article on binary features of the sound segments of the Standard Albanian3.

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