a distinctive feature.
The fea
ture which cannot serve this purpose is known as a non-distinctive
feature.
Every phoneme in relation to the other phoneme may be
characterized by this distinctive and non-distinctive feature. Thus,
a phoneme is a bundle o f distinctive features. In relation to the
phoneme the same phoneme's allophones have non-distinctive
feature such as the relation between /pV aspirated and /р/ non-
aspirated may be characterized by a non-distinctive feature. But
the common features o f /р/ and /рл/ generalize the phoneme /р/
which is bilabial, plosive-occlusive, voiceless3.
As a linguistic unit the phoneme functions to distinguish
lexical and grammatical forms and in this way performs its com
municative function in a language. Every phoneme with its allo
phones is a member o f a phonological opposition.
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