featurespronunciation
Featurespronunciation is a term used in linguistics and speech technology to describe the relationship between phonological features and their realized sounds in pronunciation. The concept emphasizes how abstract features such as voicing, place and manner of articulation, or syllable structure influence the concrete phonetic realization of speech sounds. While not a standard entry in every phonology encyclopedia, the term appears in discussions of feature-based models that link linguistic representations to audible pronunciation.
Etymology and scope: The word combines 'features' from phonology with 'pronunciation', signaling a modeling approach rather
Core concepts: In feature-based pronunciation, phonemes are described by feature matrices and realized as actual segments
Applications: Text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition systems use feature-driven pronunciation to generate natural-sounding speech and to
Challenges: Defining a universal feature set is difficult due to cross-linguistic variation and context dependence. Evaluation
See also: Phonetics, Phonology, Allophone, Coarticulation, Speech synthesis.