Unified Features

统一特征

A term used to characterize models of non-linear phonology which integrate consonantal and vowel place features in a single framework. In this approach, for example, labial and coronal articulations are brought together into a single coronal tier. However, consonants and vowels retain their identity, in that place features of consonants are immediately dominated by the consonantal place node, and vowels by the vocalic place node. Thus the relation of [labial] in a consonant to C-place defines a different plane from that of [labial] in a vowel to V-place.

指某些非线性音系学模型将辅音和元音两种部分特征合并在一个框架内。例如，按这种方法，唇音和舌冠音两个发音动作合并纳入舌冠音层。但是，辅音和原因保持各自的个性，因为辅音的部位特征受辅音部位节点的直接统制，元音的部位特征则受元音部位节点的直接统制。因此一个辅音的[唇音]特征与C-部位的关系所定义的平面不同于元音的[唇]特征与V-部位的关系所定义的平面。