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(5.13) Feature <strong>hierarchy</strong> (Kean 1980:26)<br />

syllabic<br />

consonantal<br />

segment<br />

sonorant anterior<br />

back<br />

low<br />

labial<br />

nasal coronal<br />

StVC cont<strong>in</strong>uant spread<br />

SlVC lateral high flap CP<br />

CG SG DR trill stress<br />

strident long<br />

<strong>The</strong> markedness conventions thus presuppose a feature <strong>hierarchy</strong>. This<br />

<strong>hierarchy</strong>, however, functions quite differently from the <strong>contrastive</strong> <strong>hierarchy</strong><br />

because it is not driven by language-particular contrasts, and does not<br />

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