Distinctive feature

distinctive features are the descriptive quality by which sounds are distinguished from one another. distinctive feature can be phonetic correlation of the sound in question or in other ocassion may be an auditory or eveen an acoustic quality of a vocal sounds. distinctive features are descriptive tools through which individual sounds can be describe. the use of distinctive features is common in theories of generative phonology and it hve been adjudged as adequate in its function of differentiating speech sounds. some example of distinctive feactures are coronal-[sounds produced while the front or blade of the tongue is raised towards the roof of the mouth.], anterior-[sounds produced outside the palato-aveolar region e.g labials, aveolars, labio-dentals].